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“As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.”

People Men Needs Children Long Has Beens Culture Written Generations Battle Lows Expectations Excuse Access Relevant Future Generation Cursing Making Excuses Low Expectations Nemo

Author:Michael Gove

“Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.”

Men Made Careers Study Huge Gains Access Planning Wages Pills Family Planning

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.”

Enough Institutions Access

Author:Ellen Goodman

“Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.”

Firsts Law Silence Meditation Pure Judgment Access

Book:The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

“I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.”

Thinking Children Littles Lines Car Keys Credit Access Cards Cracks Pipe Credit Card Car Keys

Book:Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

“Money buys access; access buys influence.”

Influence Access

Author:Elizabeth Drew

“Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have.”

Giving Ideas Spirit Laughter Expectations Crosses Surprise Access Priorities Boundaries Lifts Shock Association

Book:A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story

Source: A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story

“We all have within us a deep sense of what we need, and what is right and true for us. To access this we need to pay attention to our feelings and our intuition. We need to learn to listen deeply to ourselves and to trust what we hear. And we need to risk acting on what we feel to be true. Even if we make mistakes, we must do this in order to learn and grow.”

Ifs Needs Feels Feelings Order Grows Pay Acting Attention Mistake Risk Awareness Intuition Access Being True Pay Attention Making Mistakes We Make Mistakes

Book:Creating True Prosperity

Source: Creating True Prosperity

“And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught.”

Ifs Men Children Book School America Religion Religious Moral Taught Source Morality Succeed Men And Women Deny Access Primaries Instruction Public School Primary Source Educating Children

Author:Pat Buchanan

“The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.”

Internet Access Allowing Cool Things Backlash

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I think the [fan] access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into my life. I just try to keep the negative stuff at arm's length. Laugh at it and walk away.”

Thinking Trying Stuff Walks Laughing Wonderful Fans Arms Negative Complicated Access Length Wonderful Things

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.”

People Thinking Art Important Cities Access Performing Visuals Sydney Visual Art Performing Arts Melbourne Adelaide Perth

Author:George Brandis

“Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.”

Doe Country Access Other Countries Greece Liquidity

Author:Antonis Samaras

“To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.”

Book School Film Access Film School Film History

Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

“I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.”

People Thinking Way Jobs Impossible Access Admire Translations

Author:Joan Larkin

“The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.”

Ifs Feels Kind May Cases Crime Havens Internet Deserve Committed Access Piracy

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.”

Knows Feels Believe Humans States Moments Practice Return Periods Enlightenment Universal Constant Access Clarity Sensitive Awake Confused Being Human Numb Moments Of Clarity

Author:Mark Nepo

“There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.”

May Stories Use Mountain Benefits Increase Envy Access Generosity Abundance Thrive Application Salt Decay Uncertain Purses Merchants Carried Away

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become a storage room without a key. We are forced to suppress or forget so many events and ideas and thoughts that those to which we should have access are lost in the welter. However, there are people who seem capable of unlocking this part of their minds and extracting relevant information.”

Source: The weak-eyed bat

“The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.”

Way Self Feelings Opportunity Parent Family Expression Luck Access Mourning Resentment True Self Reconciliation Great Opportunity Free Expression

Author:Alice Miller

“Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.”

Truth Healing Emotional Truth Is Access Indispensable

Book:Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth

Source: Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth

“Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.”

Giving Kind Sometimes Might Madness Access Guarantees

Author:Shirley Hazzard

“Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.”

Children Care Equal Access Spheres Defining Child Care

Author:Mary Frances Berry

“Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.”

Ifs Thinking Use Feelings Brain Access

Book:The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered

Source: The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered

“The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim to have a corner on righteousness, on direct access to God ... The bigots of the world are having a heyday.”

World Today Spirit Religion Religious Air Land Direct Claims Corners Breathe Access Righteousness Totalitarianism Bigots Heyday

Author:Sonia Johnson

“Some crafts have been practiced for centuries. These crafts were created using skills passed from generation to generation, and were motivated by necessity such as baskets and pottery, or artistic expression, such as more baskets and more pottery. Today, there is a much more leisurely attitude toward crafting, and virtually anyone without a job and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters.”

Has Beens Today Jobs Attitude Generations Century Expression Skills Access Crafts Artistic Motivated Elites Hobbies Pipe Baskets Cleaners Pottery Artistic Expression Crafters

Author:Amy Sedaris

“A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.”

Men Opportunity Democracy Seeing Depends Equal Tools Equality Access Integration

Author:Hillary Clinton

“When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world... There is a stimulative and ripple effect that kicks in when women have greater access to jobs and the economic lives of our countries: Greater political stability. Fewer military conflicts. More food. More educational opportunity for children... By harnessing the economic potential of all women, we boost opportunity for all people.”

“With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.”

“The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.”

Way I Can Access Relax Paradox Relaxed

Author:Lynda Obst

“Differences of power are always manifested in asymmetrical access. The President of the United States has access to almost everybody for almost anything he might want of them, and almost nobody has access to him. The super-rich have access to almost everybody; almost nobody has access to them. ... The creation and manipulation of power is constituted of the manipulation and control of access.”

Want States Might President Differences United Power United States Rich Creation Access Manipulation

Author:Marilyn Frye

“I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect womens access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.”

Care Able Law Decision Protect Access Health Care Consistently Contraceptives Reproductive Health

Author:Dan Maffei

“Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting?”

People War Country Running Fighting Secret Millions Computer Asking Majority Congress Access Innocent Operations Allies Permission Nsa

Author:Edward Snowden

“I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access to a site where the entry for Klingon is longer than the entry for Latin.”

Needs My Own Access Latin Site Entry Wireless Wikipedia Intestines Stir Fry

Author:Tara Brabazon

“Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.”

Stills Might Water Possibility Moon Access Russia Ice Entertaining Mars

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes room for people. I’m an artist who cares about the cultural fabric of New York City. I care about New York as a harbor for street culture - and I care about street culture as a base-level populist diffusion of ideas. And I believe in making those ideas accessible to everyone.”

People Believe Ideas Care Artist Culture I Believe Levels Rooms Cities Streets New York Crowds I Believe In Access New York City Fabric I Care Who Cares Harbors Populist Diffusion

Author:Kalan Sherrard

“There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to encourage small business, to encourage ownership, to expand access to quality health care, to enhance opportunity by making higher education more affordable to American's young people, to have our children live in safe neighborhoods, drug-free, crime-free, and a safe and clean environment, first and foremost to provide for the national defense, to protect and defend the American people, and to have accountability for our budget and for our spending.”

“My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the information, they will make better ethical choices.”

People Ifs Choices Information Access Ethical

Author:Michael Pollan

“What is really important is to educate people how to protect themselves and how to ensure that, despite their poverty, they can get tested and access drugs. So I just hope that those who can will make those drugs available.”

People Important Poverty Drug Protect Available Access Despite Educate Tested

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Right now with blogs and the flood of internet access, a multitude of aspiring writers think they're ready for prime time. They're not. Be great. Read. Write. Bust your ass. Learn and find your voice. As hard as you think it is, it's a hundred times harder.”

Thinking Writing Hard Voice Ready Internet Right Now Hundred Harder Access Ass Prime Flood Multitudes Blogs Aspiring Writers Prime Time Internet Access

Author:Steven Pressfield

“There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.”

“Well, if you count my phone as an access point (which I do), I'm pretty much constantly online unless I'm at an event or practice or something.”

Ifs Wells Practice Events Phones Access Online

Author:Chris Kluwe

“Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.”

Self Together Rights Divine Blessing Who You Are Access Working Together Sparks Ignite

Author:Amit Ray

“I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.”

Way Book Play Kids Watches Too Much Media Tvs Access Experiments Comic Comic Book Nintendo

Author:Matt Groening

“From the consumer point of view, there may be questions about whether you'll have to be an AOL subscriber to get Time magazine, ... That combination of media with the access is one through which you may be able to block access to your competitors' subscribers.”

May Able Views Media Point Of View Access Block Magazines Consumers Combination Competitors Time Magazine

Author:Charlene Li

“Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably too many musical options for them now and the trick is to limit the number of musical ideas so as to develop structure and continuity in their work.”

Ideas Used Numbers Students Limits Comfortable Computer Structure Musical Access Tricks Software Continuity

Author:Jon Appleton

“I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.”

Ifs Want Feels Different Care Kids Easy Decision Situation Son Terrible Access Health Care Chickens My Son Terrible Things Underprivileged Pox Easy Access

Author:Eula Biss

“Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.”

Ifs Water Resources Areas Clean Access Hardest Granted Simplest Clean Water Rural Areas Things We Take For Granted

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.”

Thinking Way Opportunity Sides Struggle Battle Approach Eating Access Nutrition Obesity Great Opportunity Good Nutrition

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.”

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