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Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly patriarchal. In general, men write; women read. I would like to see this pattern changing. More women should write novels, poems, plays, and hopefully, more men will read fiction.

~Elif Safak

Topics: About Books Changing Complex Country Culture Fiction General Generations Hopefully However Like Men More Most Mostly Novels Passionate Patriarchal Pattern Plays Poems Read Readers See Should Turkey Will Women Would Write Written

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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Ambition Come Control Exclude Generations Human Human Nature Injustice Many Much Must Nature Nearer Now Perfection Prejudice Selfishness Than Will

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By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

~Elijah Cummings

Topics: Children Clutch Crime Education Generations Help Hopelessness Nation Our Poverty Prosperity Providing Safeguard Save Students Unborn

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People told me several times during my first campaign to hide my youth and the fact that I was a nontraditional candidate - a 29-year-old woman. Instead of taking that bad advice, I really leaned in to who I was and wrapped my arms around the fact that I was young and female and that we needed representation for multiple generations in Congress.

~Elise Stefanik

Topics: Advice Arms Around Bad Campaign Candidate Congress Fact Female First Generations Hide Instead Me Multiple Needed People Really Representation Several Taking Times Who Woman Wrapped Young Youth

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President Obama has piled on more taxes, more regulations, more debt for future generations and higher health care costs - hurting our Main Street economy.

~Elise Stefanik

Topics: Care Care Costs Costs Debt Economy Future Future Generations Generations Health Health Care Health Care Costs Higher Hurting Main Main Street More Obama Our Piled President President Obama Regulations Street Taxes

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My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.

~Elizabeth Kapu'Uwailani Lindsey

Topics: Between Cannot Effort Future Future Generations Generations Past Past And Future Urgency Work

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I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.

~Elizabeth Strout

Topics: Back Because Been Come Drawn England Generations Landscape Light Many Miss New New England Personality Revealed Roots Type Where Writing

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Despite the fact that he's been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and overwrought by many, H.P. Lovecraft's work is still widely read and has remained influential for generations.

~Ellen Datlow

Topics: Been Considered Dead Despite Fact Generations He His Influential Many Over Prose Purple Read Remained Seventy Still Widely Work Years

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I'm honored to be recognized among generations of astronauts who were at the forefront of exploring our universe for the benefit of humankind.

~Ellen Ochoa

Topics: Among Astronauts Benefit Exploring Forefront Generations Honored Humankind Our Recognized Universe Were Who

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I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.

~Emeril Lagasse

Topics: Back Children Cities Community Culinary Developmental Educational Everyone Foundation Future Future Generations Generations Give Help Learn New New Skills Operate Programs Provide Responsibility Restaurants Skills Think Training Where I Think

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