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Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

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Sally Quinn
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 7
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Savannah
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Sally Sterling Quinn
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I just had a thought that perhaps religion is so vibrant here is because of the melting pot aspect to our society. WE have so many cultures here in the US and they all bring something new to their religious experiences.
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We're newspaper junkies I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
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So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.
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I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.
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My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.
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I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts.
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The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.
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Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.
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We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.
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How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.
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The important is not what you believe but how you behave.
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Those who are religious or who have any beliefs have so much to choose from.
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When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.
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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
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I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
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