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“Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.”
Source : Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel
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“Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.”
Source : Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.93, Univ of California Press
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“You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.”
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“Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.”
Source : George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”
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“The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I wont be at this level. But while Im here and while Im having success early, Im trying to do everything to stay on this level.”
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“Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.”
Source : "Interview Issue: Dan Savage, Jane Lynch on 'It Gets Better,' Gay Bullying, 'Glee'". Interview with Jessica Bennett, www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2010.
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“Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.”
Source : Francis Atterbury (1774). “Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions”, p.110
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“The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.”