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All Quotes Collection

"I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing."
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"As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust."
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"Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations."
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"Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom."
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"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
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"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
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"If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat."
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"Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable."
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"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."
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"This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate."
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"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."
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"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."
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"Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen."
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"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."
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"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity."
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"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."
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"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
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"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."
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"Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day."
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"The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat."
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"Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization."
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"We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism."
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"Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans."
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"We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq."
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"We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair."
30

"Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure."
30

"Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced."
35

"The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art."
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"Winning the peace is harder than winning the war."
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"Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs."
31

"But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history."
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