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• Although my own view is that bin Laden does not want to stage an attack that looks like 9/11 in Europe simply because he does not want to be the agent of Trans-Atlantic reconciliation. I think they will continue to do attacks like Madrid, the British attack, the subway systems, because those attacks have proven that the European response so far has been to blame the domestic government, not to side with the Americans.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, Government, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that just because I'm trans, and I feel like I have to prove to people that I'm a woman sometimes, I'm never going to sacrifice my vision of femininity to make it clearer for other people. Even if it sometimes gets cloudy.

  Hari Nef

  Sacrifice, Thinking, People

  Source: wwd.com

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• People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Years, People, Mexican

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• You know, if you've got nine people that you've got to get a treat for - because you do have sweet food, even if you're poor - you can't go out and buy a Sara Lee cake. You buy the big bag of cookies, those chocolate and vanilla ones with the icing. That has a lot of trans fat in it, but it goes a long way with a lot of people.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Sweet, Cake, Long

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Donald Trump has been rejecting the idea of trade agreements like NAFTA, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

  Audie Cornish

  Agreement, Ideas, Partnership

  "'Forbes' Editor: Trump Continues 'Common Rhetorical Line' On Trade Deals". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. August 8, 2016.

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• Many of the trans women who are in our world are also in Caitlyn's Jenner world. And yes I've definitely spoken to her multiple times, talked to her, socialized with her. It's a small community when all is said and done, the trans community in Los Angeles. So everybody really knows each other and everybody's in contact.

  Jill Soloway

  Our World, Community, Done

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• It happens all the time! People are always talking about that explosive moment in their family history that sort of changed everything and rattled the cage, and more times than not it has nothing to do with trans issues. That's why people are relating to the show Transparent, because our family is their family and they understand that dynamic.

  Judith Light

  Talking, Issues, People

  "Jeffrey Tambor and Judith Light on the NSFW ‘Transparent’ Scene Everyone Will Be Talking About". Interview with Zack Sharf, www.indiewire.com. December 11, 2015.

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• They wanted to force me to be someone that I wasn't. They wanted me to delegitimize myself as a trans woman and I was not taking that. As a proud black trans woman, I was not going to allow the system to delegitimize, hyper-sexualize and take my identity away from me.

  CeCe McDonald

  Black, Identity, Proud

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

  Dean Spade

  Rights, People, Conservative

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• One particular debate that I have seen play out again and again is whether trans people who have more traditional gender expressions or who "pass" more should be the ones who are represented. A recent advocacy guide focused on advocating around trans health care access produced by the largest trans advocacy organization in the US instructs readers that advocacy will be more successful if the message is delivered by people who pass as non-trans men and women.

  Dean Spade

  Successful, Men, Expression

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• It is easier to talk about issues; it is easier to say you're a feminist because it's actually awesome to be one. The panopoly of people identifying as feminists is really excellent now that we've come to a point where all these really interesting voices are rising up and saying they're feminists - women of color, trans people, gay folks, everybody. It's an exciting time to actually define as that because it means that people are really feeling like their voice is what's the most important thing in the movement, and I love that.

  Lizz Winstead

  Mean, Gay, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nowadays everybody's a feminist - male, female, trans. Gender's so passé they don't even care anymore. They know what equal rights are, they know what it's about, and everybody is standing toe-to-toe strong about it and really fighting.

  Lizz Winstead

  Strong, Fighting, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Additionally, the movement gets strangely subdivided among, for example, male cross-dressers, sissy boys, butch women, femme dykes, drag kings, drag queens, transvestites, intersexed, transsexuals (post-op, pre-op, and non-op).

  Kate Bornstein

  Queens, Kings, Boys

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• You can support trans-positive legislation, tranny artists, and the inclusion of trannies in your neighborhood, schools, place of worship, whatever. For the long term? Join or initiate some good legal battles against the puritanical laws that exist around sex and gender.

  Kate Bornstein

  Sex, School, Artist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

  Thomas Merton

  Religious, Consciousness, Form

  Thomas Merton (2000). “Thoughts On The East”, p.43, A&C Black

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• What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to be an airline pilot, okay? That's all I'm asking. Please dear God, do not let any of these home-schooled kids grow up to be a surgeon, an airline pilot, or a nurse. Or somebody that's in charge of my trans-vaginal mandatory ultrasound. Seriously, no science-y things for them, you know, just religion, let them be all preachers or something.

  Randi Rhodes

  Growing Up, Kids, Home

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• We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world ... The system scientist has a central role to play in this new order, and that role is to first of all understand ways and means of how to encode the natural world into "good" formal structures.

  John L. Casti

  Real, Moving, Mean

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• America needs an ineffective president. That's much better than an effective president that's going to go to war with Russia, that's going to push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that's going to protect Wall Street, and that's going to oppose neoliberal austerity. I would much rather have an ineffective president than someone who's going to do these bad things that I fear is going to come from Hillary and the Democratic Party.

  Michael Hudson

  Wall, War, Party

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.

  Georges Duhamel

  Memories, Real, Color

  "The Heart's Domain". Book by Georges Duhamel, 1919.

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• It struck me that many Christians flash around their 'no trans fat' label, trying to convince everyone they are healthy and good. Yet they have no substantive or healthful elements to their faith. It's like the Laodiceans, who thought they had everything until Christ told them they were poor and wretched.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Healthy, Trying

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.93, David C Cook

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• The Trans Pacific Partnership (and fast-track authority to whisk it through Congress without debate) is fast approaching. If you haven't seen our video about it, please watch. If you have, please share. And mobilize and organize friends and colleagues to call their senators and representatives to tell them to vote against this reprehensible deal.

  Robert Reich

  Track, Watches, Video

  FaceBook post by Robert Reich from May 01, 2015

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• The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.

  Bernie Sanders

  Agreement, Normal, Partnership

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders on taxes, trade agreements and Islamic State". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 18, 2015.

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• Trans folks are going to rise up for their moments and their money!

  Hari Nef

  Moments, Folks

  "The dazed 100". www.dazeddigital.com.

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• My only bookings this week came from within my friends. Trans people have been central to New York’s art and fashion scene for nearly as long as those ‘scenes’ have existed as we know them. It’s about time that this reality was represented on the city’s runways.

  Hari Nef

  Fashion, Art, New York

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• Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

  Arthur Miller

  Beautiful, Dream, Fashion

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