Kim Stanley Robinson
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KATE LOOBY VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH PAUL FARMER WENDELL BERRY If you need a license to add a room to somebody's house, shouldn't you need some kind of certificate... ELAINE LYTTLETON Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for c... IRWIN REDLENER PAUL FARMER These are the same dollars used for health care, public safety and education. We would need to know ... MATT VANOVER KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper h... GELILA BEKELE These bills are purely political and do nothing to address health care policy. AMY HILL We need to work together to help Africans address critical issues such as health and education, gove... JEAN CHRETIEN JAMES MADISON JAMES MADISON if NAYYIRAH WAHEED There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all... 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BARBARA MIKULSKI PATTY MURRAY MICHAEL STEELE A country that denies it, citizens, the opportunity to "civil liberties", better health care, school... HENRY JOHNSON JR RUPI KAUR KAILASH SATYARTHI ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN TIM WISE You can have separate identities for the separate parts of your life. For example, you can have a he... AUSTIN HILL THOMAS FRANK ARISTOTLE Access to the banking system is a critical piece of their ability to save. Giving them that access i... JOSEPH SMITH It is well deserved that they recognize people who are working very hard to provide safety for our c... CINDY LOVE The American dream is to have your own home and to have some sort of security with health insurance.... RUTH CASE We are providing a cleaner source of water to avoid any health problems, and in the second instance ... MARK PETERS Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts... 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That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements ... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. KIM STANLEY ROBINSON The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami)... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been ... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that'... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON He had always pitched in his conversational ante, and if he had contributed infrequently thereafter,... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots tha... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. KIM STANLEY ROBINSON Shortness of life was a primary force in the permanence of institutions, strange though it is to say... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, w... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON So. Our little pearl of warmth, our spinning orrery of lives, our island, our beloved solar system, ... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our re... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds t... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for in... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON Despair could never touch a morning like this.KIM STANLEY ROBINSON Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the s... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: ... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like ... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a littl... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when... STANLEY HAUERWAS I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive... STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER STANLEY KUBRICK ANDY STANLEY The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost... RALPH STANLEY I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley... RALPH STANLEY I believe in my music. RALPH STANLEY I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can&... RALPH STANLEY I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to... RALPH STANLEY I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it. RALPH STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY STANLEY KUBRICK STANLEY KUBRICK I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing. STANLEY JORDAN STANLEY KUBRICK Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals... STANLEY CROUCH STANLEY BALDWIN In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it.... 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Either he is agreeing with life by affirming,... STANLEY ELKIN CHARLES STANLEY 'Dust Devil,' I've never really seen with an American audience, so I'm looking forwa... RICHARD STANLEY STANLEY KUBRICK STANLEY CLARKE STANLEY KUBRICK PAUL STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY ANDY STANLEY STANLEY KUBRICK ANDY STANLEY ANDY STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY PAUL STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have no... STANLEY HAUERWAS CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY STANLEY KUBRICK CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police ar... STANLEY CROUCH PAUL STANLEY PAUL STANLEY CHARLES STANLEY I am a Protestant. 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Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political pa... 
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and ... 
And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refuse... 
What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most v... 
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate... 
The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the enviro... 
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that ... 
according to the Greek philosophers, that we become truly human by devoting time to self-development... 
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. 
Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, ... 
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regard... 
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' ... 
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regard... 
When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care ... 
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ... 
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water w... 
You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstac... 
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour ... 
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contrib... 
We need to stop the quibbling, the partisan games, and political brinkmanship to find a solution tha... 
You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are pre... 
Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is ... 
Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter... but... 
Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of America... 
We need to increase access to health insurance through Health Savings Accounts and high deductible p... 
i am not a hotel room. i am home
Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right t... 
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppressio... 
Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and politic... 
The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by any... 
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life ... 
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.... 
The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to region... 
Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports. 
In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of t... 
will provide grants to help civil society strengthen the rule of law, to protect basic civil liberti... 
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell 
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. 
Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not al... 
Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consump... 
We need more access to quality health care, not less. 
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, be... 
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a m... 
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. 
What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision a... 
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h... 
A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight. 
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the... 
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been m... 
A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid 
The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kil... 
If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has... 
The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story. 
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. 
Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice. 
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. 
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. 
It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are pupp... 
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to... 
Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air condi... 
I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those. 
There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and s... 
Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheatin... 
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspirati... 
After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a n... 
I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine yea... 
What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing ... 
Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. 
Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. 
As goods become more standardized - and mass production has that effect, standardizing product - the... 
I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to m... 