Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.
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Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
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Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
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Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
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I can no longer stomach the systemic political decay that has weakened our democracy,
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When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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