"Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels."

-- Rudyard Kipling

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“I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to realize that "gay" is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman's on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals. It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.”

Source : "Bigotry That Hurts Our Military". www.washingtonpost.com. March 14, 2007.
“The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.”
“You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - it's only made to fool you. It's the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.”
“While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!”

Source : "Booth the Beloved". Book by J. Evan Smith (pp. 122-124), 1949.
“Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.”
“A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.”
“Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America.”
“You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bolt; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the rest of your life. I would not wish such a love on anyone, man or woman, for it can make your life a paradise, or it can destroy you utterly.”

Source : Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.72, Macmillan

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