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		In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elena Kagan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T. J. Perkins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Watson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I always knew I was destined for greatness. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oprah Winfrey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Miller 
			 
			
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		I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Valentina Tereshkova 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gail Collins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Radek 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kangana Ranaut 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abdullah II of Jordan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kabir Bedi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victoria Woodhull 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Jonas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Neil deGrasse Tyson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Michael Clarke Duncan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When she started crying in my rehearsal, I felt so badly because I was like, 'I'm making Kelly Clarkson cry right now,' but it also felt really good because I thought, 'If she is feeling this, hopefully, America will feel this, too.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brynn Cartelli 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elliott Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elena Kagan