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If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything. ↗

— Tom Allen

#aisle #almost #always #anything #apart

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#everybody #life #only #preserved #privileged

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#change #i #like #only #realized

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#belong #california #chile #exile #i

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#art #development #find #knowledge #life

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#behind #believe #bodies #both #i

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#fail #failed #go #gusto #i

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side. ↗

— Luther Allison

#get #just #lifetime #side #south

I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? ↗

— George Orwell

#george-orwell #equality

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks. ↗

— Gloria Allred

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