"Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend Americaâ€™s beauty -- from the oil spillers, the clear-cutters and the mountaintop removers. Deep patriots don't just visit the Statue of Liberty and send a postcard home to grandma. We defend the principles upon which that great monument was founded -- 'give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'"

Source : Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.228, Nation Books

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“The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.”

Source : Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.175, Macmillan
“The referee jumped in too late in my opinion. He's the champion and he's got to be given every chance, but a lot of people was wincing and cringing seeing the finish cos his head is bouncing all over the place.”
“Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.”
“The best interpreter of the law is custom.”
“It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us.”

Source : Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i”, p.307, Macmillan
“I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. July 7, 2010.
“I've never considered myself to be working for a living; I've enjoyed myself for a living instead.”

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