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All Quotes Collection

"Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one."
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"There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy."
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"One in 5 Americans is touched by the Red Cross every single year."
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"Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay."
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"Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia."
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"Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic."
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"Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it."
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"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
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"The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough."
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"Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all."
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"We're going to see fugitives and felons, eventually, being able to get guns much more easily."
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"According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable."
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"Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable."
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"Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem."
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"No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys."
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"I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to."
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"A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment."
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"Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet."
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"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
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"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."
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"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."
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"They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things."
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"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them."
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"Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things."
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"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning."
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"In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads."
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"Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen."
Want,
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"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."
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"There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that."
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"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail."
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"The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility."
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"There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow."
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"So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs."
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