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Madeleine M. Kunin has 70 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having…
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One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.
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Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
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The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.
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Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side…
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There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home…
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What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to…
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When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons…
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A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
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Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But…
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The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary.
— Jamie Dimon
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It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what…
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In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
— Robert Fitzgerald
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Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony…
— Igor Stravinsky
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Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.
— Artur Davis
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I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from…
— Naomi Wallace
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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it.…
— Anna Deavere Smith
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I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.
— Vince Young
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When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think…
— Tommy Lasorda
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Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're…
— Twyla Tharp
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