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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of "sexual preference" and the issue of civil rights, to become a politics of asking women's questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women--not a chosen few--shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture."

Issues Commitment Integrity
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Cat Stevens Singer-songwriter
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"I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom."

Issues Media Islam
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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician
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"In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions."

Ideas Issues Math
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Ava DuVernay Film Director
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"Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this to hit people in their gut, and the hope is that by doing that, we can get more people to think more deeply about these issues."

Thinking Issues Epidemics
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William Kennedy Novelist
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"Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review."

Issues Paris Greek
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use."

Light Issues Heaven
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Tao Lin Author and Poet
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"I feel connected with people because of their sense of humor, worldview, and what they think and feel about certain existential issues (things not affected, in my view, by if someone rides a horse or drives a car or talks only IRL or only by typing), not how old they are, what they use to convey what they think and feel about certain existential issues, or if we have both watched the same TV shows or looked at the same websites."

Thinking Issues Horse
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Theresa May Politician
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"A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!"

Men Issues Hey
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Theresa May Politician
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"As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture."

Use Issues Torture
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Theresa May Politician
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"One of the issues that has been an issue in how we deal with net migration up until now is that we haven't been able to have any control over freedom of movement from the European Union. We will have that control in the future once we leave the EU."

Issues Movement Unions
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Sonia Gandhi Politician
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"It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities."

People Reality Issues
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I. King Jordan Educator
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"At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access."

Thinking Issues College
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated."

Men Goal Issues
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Lana Del Rey Singer-Songwriter
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"For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept... Whenever people bring up feminism, I’m like, god. I’m just not really that interested."

People Interesting Issues
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Gaylord Nelson Politician
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"The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around."

Numbers Issues Today
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