"I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war."

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Source : Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

Jeannette Rankin

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Personality Quotes

“My favorite football team is the Bears because my favorite player is on there, Devin Hester. I love the whole team, though. But that's just my favorite player.”
“Utterance" Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence”
“In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown.”
“I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.”
“Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.”
“Somatic Exercises can change how we live our lives, how we believe that our minds and bodies interrelate, how powerful we think we are in controlling our lives, and how responsible we should be in taking care of our total being.”
“We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...”
“Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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