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All Quotes Collection
"I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation."
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"I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby."
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"Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to."
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"Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good."
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"I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight."
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"If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system."
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"Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?"
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"This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb."
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"There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle."
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"The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism."
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"Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members."
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"I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue."
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"Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent."
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"I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children."
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"I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean."
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"I think Bush's immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached."
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"I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests."
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"I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases."
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"I've been a financial journalist for 30 years."
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"Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us."
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"Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy."
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"When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance."
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"Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?"
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"When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else."
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"My education and background thoroughly inform my writing."
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
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"But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens."
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"But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science."
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"Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones."
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"Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature."
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"My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea."
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"Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world."
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"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine."
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"Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine."
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