"George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead."

-- Jesse Jackson

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“Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.”
“He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.”
“I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder”

Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.104, New Directions Publishing
“Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
“The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.”
“Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.”
“Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting doesn't always lead to action. Many of the women had been raised without the sense that they could mold and shape their own lives, and so, wanting to be an artist (but without the ability to realize their wants) was, for some of them, only an idle fantasy, like wanting to go to the moon.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.”

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