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“We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.”
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“Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.”
Source : Wyndham Lewis (1950). “Rude Assignment: A Narrative of My Career Up-to-date”
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“I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.”
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“During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian.”
Source : "Greg Abbott's War". Interview with Jake Silverstein, www.texasmonthly.com. September 2012. 
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“There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.”
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“Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.”
Source : "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2007.
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“Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.”
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“There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.”
Source : "Why I pulled out of the TS Eliot poetry prize" by Alice Oswald, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.
