"I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed -- geared toward improving our entire society,"

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Source : "Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’ Wife, Gives First Interview Since Husband’s Death" by Dan Nakaso, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

Laurene Powell Jobs

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“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.”
“While I did complete high school, I would have to say that it was by the skin of my teeth. My education ever since then has been one that I got "on the job" and I consider myself a very well-educated person at this point!”
“Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of socialization. On top of it, we have huge segregation in early childhood programs. I don't see these patterns changing anytime soon, and that's a big obstacle.”
“the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.”
“A good parent gives their child roots and wings.”
“I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.”
“Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.”
“I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries. Columbus is coming from the Indies as a prisoner to Cadiz.”

Source : Letter to Dona Juana de Torres, Oct. 1500

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