"In a sense the Pirate Party is very similar to what happened for the Bernie Sanders campaign, where people felt inspired and they felt like they were having an impact, a big grass-roots-inspired movement, in particular with young people."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Birgitta Jonsdottir

#Party Quotes #Impact Quotes #Roots Quotes

“I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another, and that the infinite subtlety of the shading from one extreme to the other was one of the most beautiful of nature's phenomena.”
“I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.”

Source : "Kamala Harris: Democrats' anti-Palin". www.politico.com. December 24, 2010.
“Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.”

Source : "Those Without Shadows". Book by Françoise Sagan, 1957.
“The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.”
“I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.”
“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.”
“But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.”
“I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.”

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