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“However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.”
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“For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same.”
Source : "Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo" by John Oliver Mason, progressive.org. August 5, 2005.
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“I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.”
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“There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.”
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“I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.”
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“I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.”
Source : "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.
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“I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions”
Source : "'Dog of Flanders' answers Cheryl Ladd's prayers" by Andy Culpepper, www.cnn.com. August 25, 1999.
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“About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.”