"The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000."

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Nicholas Johnson

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“Too many heroes in my life. All gone.”
“I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.”
“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”
“I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.”
“Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.”

Source : Judith Viorst (1990). “Forever Fifty and Other Negotiations”, Thorndike Pr
“The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.”
“But more than any of that, I was thankful for the possibility he'd shown me: that a man really could love a woman enough that he'd do anything to protect her. That's how much Tod loved Addy. That's how much I wanted Nash to love me.”
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road-the one "less traveled by"-offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”

Source : "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, (p. 277), 1962.

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