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Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#concerns #debate #democrats #elected #fundamental

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes. ↗

— Marilyn French

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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to. ↗

— Mink Stole

#damn #damn thing #tell #thing #want

All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms. ↗

— Martin Frost

#candidates #democratic #democratic party #fundamental #needs

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#any #damn #damn fool #every #fool

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#among #christian #defects #fundamentalists #hundred

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war. ↗

— George Galloway

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