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The day that I spearheaded the passage of America Fast Forward... the newspaper of record did not put it in the newspaper; what they put was my breakup with my ex-girlfriend. I took umbrage with that. A great newspaper ought to be printing things that people care about, issues that people care about. Antonio Villaraigosa

Day Great People Care Took Ought Record About Put Printing Passage Issues America Did Breakup Newspaper Forward Fast Things

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. Billie Jean King

Sports Women Girl Beginning Finally States Athletic Scholarships Passage Still Infancy Get Title United United States Started

A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy. Brad Feld

Health Good Good Health You Rite Health Insurance Insurance Passage America Turn

One of the best moments of the Obama presidency was the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Brad Schneider

Best Care Presidency Obama Passage Affordable Affordable Care Act Act Moments

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage. Carl Hiaasen

Good Find Like Particularly Passage Sentence Page Reason

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' Cesare Lombroso

God Alone Once Poem Both He Knew Knows Passage His Questioned Replied Regarding Meaning Meaning Of Meant Now

The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights, and that women and children deserve better, and that the demands of justice, generosity, and compassion require that the right to life be guaranteed to everyone. Chris Smith

Life Time Justice Rights Women Abortion Better Compassion Human Rights Changed Everyone Fact Generosity Demands Passage Women And Children Human Children Require Serious Lethal Fundamental Deserve Right Violation Guaranteed

In my formative years, I never missed the 'Creature Double Feature' on Saturday afternoon TV, even if it meant switching back and forth between 'Gamera' and the Red Sox. I did a book report on Stephen King's 'Night Shift' in seventh grade. Unrated Italian horror movies became a weekly rite of passage once I hit seventeen. Chuck Hogan

Book King Back Seventeen Once Seventh TV Horror Horror Movies Feature Rite Weekly Never Red Between Missed Red Sox Became Passage Shift Italian Years Hit Report Did Grade Sox Afternoon Formative Movies Double Forth Meant Even Creature Switching Saturday Night

Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years. Damon Galgut

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. Danny Glover

Education Freedom School Active Summer Project High High School Rite Almost Voter Mississippi Massive Becoming Passage Graduated

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts. Dirk Benedict

Time Face Nation Lifts Terrified Passage Prozac America Land

Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice. Don Young

God Remember Community Some Arctic Glaciers Open Had Retreated Passage Were Covered Huge Scotland Any Northwest Ice Iceland Farming Grapes Villages Found Wide Raising

Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve. Douglas Rushkoff

Time Beauty Addict Diminishing Paralyzed Seek More Botox Attempt Like Returns Passage Very Stop Available Less Moment Preserve

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. Ellsworth Huntington

Man Soil Mountains Other Easy Blessings Passage Metals Climate Stimulating Rocks Fertile Iron Plains Across Coal Shower Level

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good. Emile Hirsch

Good Think Everything Proper Rites Days Polite Passage Where

I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage. Emily Weiss

Youth Culture Books Rites Like Identity Passage Explore Youth Culture

You watch enough TV, and very soon the inside of your head has become a vast, arid plain, across which you cannot detect the passage of a thought. Harlan Ellison

You Thought Become Enough TV Detect Inside Vast Arid Head Soon Passage Very Cannot Which Plain Across Your Watch

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane. Haruki Murakami

Musicians Down Find Stay Something Passage Still Go Get Want Create Really Sane Novelists Downstairs Basement Second Need

I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage. Iman

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. J. G. Ballard

In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy. James Surowiecki

Depression Great Heart Made Collective Country Before Unions Great Depression Easier Collective Bargaining Something Joined Never Economy Industries Passage Wagner American Did Done Which Workers Across Act Bargaining Organized Union American Workers Millions

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