"We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in junior high school about how we have three branches of government, and we have checks and balances, and what a lovely system. No. The changes, important changes that we've had in history, have not come from those three branches of government. They have reacted to social movements."

-- Howard Zinn

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“Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.”

Source : Barbara Bretton (2001). “A Soft Place to Fall”, Berkley
“My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.”
“The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent we will have to digest the definition of real development: development is synonymous with culture. When we sublimate nature in a way that we achieve peace, happiness, prosperity and, ultimately, fulfilment along with satisfying our basic needs, we march towards culture.”
“I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.”
“Maybe there is no one perfect person and anyone you end up with will eventually make you think thereâ€™s someone better out there.”
“I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.”
“Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.”
“At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.”

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