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“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he’s the only one who can save the ship.” ~ Ivern Ball
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“I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.” ~ Judy Woodruff
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
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“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.” ~ George Jean Nathan
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“It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.” ~ Grover Cleveland
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“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters” ~ Albert Einstein
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“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.” ~ Khaled Hosseini
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“They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions… but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
~ Harper Lee
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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ~ Coco Chanel
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“I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel – let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing. I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that’s handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.” ~ Howard Zinn
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“Spring is not a season; it is a mysterious illusionist who sets off fireworks in the depths of our soul!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
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“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.” ~ John F Kennedy
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“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” ~ Statue of Liberty
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“No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
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“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.” ~ Richard Armour
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“Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.”
~ Joan Blades
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“Success is 99% attitude and 1% aptitude.” ~ Celestine Chua
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“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” ~ Winston Churchill
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“The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.” ~ Clare Boothe Luce
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“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it.” ~ Author unknown
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…and since today is National Chocolate Eclair Day: “He has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss
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“Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.” — Mike Quigley
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“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.” — H. L. Mencken
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“A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?” — Bob Hope
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anaïs Nin
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