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"Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court."
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"As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them."
"It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it."
"There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision."
"There were always choices. I'd made a string of bad ones myself. At least I could admit that."
"We each possess the capacity for self-development. We also possess the capacity for self-destruction. The path that we chose to take " to pursue lightness or darkness " is the story that we take to our graves."
"We live by choice and by necessity. We choose the mechanisms that are essential to ensure satisfaction of our baseline survival. What labor we willingly endure in order to meet our minimalistic subsistence requirements and what activities we elect to pursue in order to mollify our desire for living joyfully and attain self-realization defines our essential self's core personality."
"I don't make people smoke pot or meth, snort coke, put pills or tabs in their mouths or shoot themselves up with heroin. I just transport the stuff."
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"Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win."
"Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success."
"We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong."
"I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count."
"I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs."
"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership."
"I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy."
"Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds."
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