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“David Brock, a conservative apostate who became a liberal activist, described the Heritage Foundation, where he was a young fellow, as almost completely under the thumb of its wealthy sponsors. In his tell-all book Blinded by the Right, he writes, “I saw how right-wing ideology was manufactured and controlled by a small group of powerful foundations” like Smith Richardson, Adolph…

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“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in its opposition to climate change science than ever. Skocpol notes that 2007 had been a turning point in the fight. That year, Al Gore was awarded both a Nobel Peace Prize and featured in an Academy Award–winning documentary…

If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

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“The candidates promised to cut taxes for those in the highest brackets, preserve Wall Street loopholes, tolerate the off-shoring of manufacturing jobs and profits, and downgrade or privatize middle-class entitlement programs, including Social Security. Free trade was barely debated. These positions faithfully reflected the agenda of the wealthy donors, but studies showed that they were increasingly out of step with…

“Amway in fact was structured to avoid federal taxes.”

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“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving the country struggling to function without all but the most vital federal services. In Meadows’s district, day-care centers that were reliant on federal aid reportedly turned distraught families away, and nearby national parks were closed, bringing the tourist…

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[The Kochs] they hate big government.

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Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I…

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“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?”

Ionel Teodoreanu

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“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.”

Lailah Gifty Akita

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I hope I continue to evolve.

Charlotte Flair

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If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

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“too—I realized that my only hope was to give up the life that had been, in order to make room for the life that…

Elizabeth Lesser

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You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life…

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Stop trying to give me hope ... I have no room left for it.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me…

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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks

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I am at a point in my life where everything I have worked for starts to look like a burden, a weight on my shoulders!I feel I am at a cross roads: either I continue fighting for what I believed in in hope that someday it will regain my interest or I drop everything right now and start from scratch...

Simone Abou Samra

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