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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. ↗

— William Blum

#also #beings #else #human #human beings

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling. ↗

— Richard Gere

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Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination. ↗

— Judy Blume

#everything #everywhere #hear #i #i see

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#art #damn #damn thing #every #just

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#basis #been #close #i #i am

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#around #asia #becoming #disasters #earthquakes

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#easy #family #give #home #newborn

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

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We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#already #borne #both #come #costs

Be the chief but never the lord. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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