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I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.

~Forest Whitaker

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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

~Foster Friess

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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.

~Fran Drescher

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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.

~Fran Kranz

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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

~Fran Lebowitz

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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

~Fran Lebowitz

Topics: Back Clothing First Him Hotel Never Relinquish Specifically Telling Want Without You

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I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.

~Frances Beinecke

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We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.

~Frances Beinecke

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Back when the EPA proposed phasing out ozone-depleting CFCs, the chemical industry howled that refrigerators would fail in America's supermarkets, hospitals and schools.

~Frances Beinecke

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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

~Frances Mcdormand

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