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“A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.”
Source : Derrick A. Bell (1994). “Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester”, Beacon Press (MA)
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“After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.”
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“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”
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“There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.”
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“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it.”
Source : "60 Minutes" Interview, www.youtube.com. February 05, 1995. 
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“Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.”
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“How much do you have to pay someone to be in a George Clooney/Alexander Payne film? Nothing! Because everyone in the world wants to be a part of it. Therefore you pay nothing. And that continues until you become something they need... I'm not that kind of actor. I'm blue collar and very replaceable.”
Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 30, 2012.
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“Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.”
