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"I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy."
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"True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it."

"Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure."

"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm."

"No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment."

"If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."

"I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles."

"Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others."

"Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean."

"I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning."

"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose."
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"I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents."

"They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries."

"I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture."

"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership."

"Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win."

"We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong."

"When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law."

"We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places."
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