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Category Archive: 1949

Benjamin Netanyahu Quote: “Certainly the international community is putting…”

Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

October 29, 2021 1949, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli, October 21, Quotes by Leaders

Eileen Myles Quote: “I wasn’t afraid of being poor….”

I wasn’t afraid of being poor. I didn’t want to live in a big house. I’m the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.

October 28, 2021 1949, American, December 9, Eileen Myles, Quotes by Poets

Ian Lustick Quote: “Just as a balloon filled gradually…”

Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.

October 28, 2021 1949, American, Ian Lustick, Quotes by Historians

Robert Sternberg Quote: “Passion is the quickest to develop…”

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

October 26, 2021 1949, American, December 8, Quotes by Educators, Robert Sternberg

Ingrid Newkirk Quote: “Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds…”

Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow’s udder.

October 19, 2021 1949, British, Ingrid Newkirk, June 11, Quotes by Activists

Ingrid Newkirk Quote: “When it comes to having a…”

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

October 19, 2021 1949, British, Ingrid Newkirk, June 11, Quotes by Activists

Gil Scott-Heron Quote: “I was one of the first…”

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

October 18, 2021 1949, American, April 1, Gil Scott-Heron, Quotes by Poets

Katha Pollitt Quote: “Most Americans probably have no idea…”

Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There’s a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.

October 12, 2021 1949, American, Katha Pollitt, October 14, Quotes by Poets

James Fenton Quote: “Working alone on a poem, a…”

Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.

October 11, 2021 1949, April 25, British, James Fenton, Quotes by Poets

Robert Sternberg Quote: “And if we don’t have a…”

And if we don’t have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?

October 3, 2021 1949, American, December 8, Quotes by Educators, Robert Sternberg

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