"Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education."

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Source : "Senator Jim Jeffords Leaves GOP, Handing Senate to Democrats". "NBC Nightly News" with Tom Brokaw and Lisa Myers, archives.nbclearn.com. May 24, 2001.

Jim Jeffords

#Issues Quotes #President Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes

“Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.”
“Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.”
“Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.”
“Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.”
“I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.”
“In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.”
“The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.”
“But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.”

Source : Jacob Neusner (1991). “The Twentieth Century Construction of "Judaism": Essays on the Religion of Torah in the History of Religion”, University of South Florida

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