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“Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”
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“Even now, hearing the debates about Medicaid, the suggestion that somehow we could save money by cutting Medicaid strikes a chord in me personally. It seems there are some other ways we can save money rather than making it harder for people like my aunt to get health care.”
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“What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many personal milieux we are required to look beyond them. And the number and variety of such structural changes increase as the institutions within which we live become more embracing and more intricately connected with one another. To be aware of the idea of social structure and to use it with sensibility is to be capable of tracing such linkages among a great variety of milieux. To be able to do that is to possess the sociological imagination”
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“By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments-that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity.”
Source : John Hospers (1971). “Libertarianism: a political philosophy for tomorrow”
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“At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the most important thing about what I was doing was getting it over with? Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.”
Source : "No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process". Book by Colin Beavan, 2009.
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“First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.”
Source : Rick Bass (1997). “The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.”
Source : Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.143, Bantam
