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DeForest Soaries

"When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life."

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"When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!"

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"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

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"People always make choices, always take sides!"

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"Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

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"When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure."
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"I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries."
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"And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power."
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"We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months."
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"I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places."
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