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"It was gradual, because even in Argentina it was difficult, they always looked for a hair in the egg. It was like wanting to dirty a lot of things that sometimes were true and sometimes weren't. I was 15 years old and I saw the cover of Crónica: “The new girlfriend,” and it was with a showgirl with feathers. And I came from high school, nuns' uniform, but well, they were stages that everyone overcame in their own way. Nobody is born knowing anything about life itself, and maybe mistakes serve you so you don't make them again."

"In other science fields, you can set up an experiment, or you can get samples of rocks or samples of other things to bring back to your lab and analyze them. But for astronomers, all you get is the light that comes back from galaxies or stars."

"With that light, you have to try to figure out the mass of that star or the mass of that galaxy, what the temperature is."

"We help the broad astronomy community use both the telescopes and data"

"Growing up in Chicago, I was always interested in being a scientist. I'm not entirely sure why. But my mother was always very interested in the sky. She was used to seeing a dark sky, and so she was really interested in the space program. So I just became really interested in astronomy and the stars, and I didn't necessarily want to be an astronomer. I wanted to be an astronaut and I wanted to do science."

"To look through the 16-inch telescope at Jupiter was literally life-changing for me. I just remember thinking that Jupiter actually looks like it does in the books—spot, bands, albeit in more of a gray scale."

"My job includes staring off into space. How awesome is that?!"

"They are the unsung heroes and heroines of our tedious nation-building efforts"

"They have been holding together this great nation through their ubiquitous trades as carpenters, bike riders, grinding machine operators, mechanics, vulcanisers, market men and women, hairdressers, tailors, photographers, welders.;"

"We have worked assiduously with us at CLP over these past three decades to improve elections and local governance all over the country."

"We plan to celebrate their efforts as we mark our 30th anniversary."

"Nigeria is a platform which we started and launchedin 2010."

"We have been working with grassroots organizations."

"Those we call grassroots civil society,organizations, mutual interest groups, artisan groups, over the years, since we started community Life Projects."

"We have done a lot of work in the area of health, sexuality, and livelihood."

"We found that there was a problem because governance was not really working for the poor, it was undermining some of the gains we had made with these groups, so we decided to launch a grassroots movement for civic engagement."

"These groups who represent voices that are excluded from decision-making tables as far as civic engagements was concerned, that they find a place around the table."

"The sector has been dominated by elite NGOs, so we launched this platform called Reclaim Naija through which these diverse grassroot groups, women’s networks, faith-based networks, and mutual interest groups, trade-based associations."

"I found myself starting to engage on health issues, especially HIV/AIDS.In the 80’s and early 90’s HIV/AIDS was a very big existential threat in Africa."

"I joined with a group of women who felt that we needed to respond and to do something to protect"

"I was already engaged along withother women in starting the first real feminist’s organization."

"We’ve had in this country,Women in Nigeria, WIN.2 I had been the national coordinator of WIN."

"We started a society for women and AIDS in Africa, along with health professionals and a few colleagues who were in WIN."

"I cameto the realization that we couldn’t feminize the response to HIV/AIDS,"

"We needed to get the men to get involved and to change their habits and behavior becausethe women didn’t seem to have enough negotiating power."

"The power dynamics within the families and community did not favor women, and I felt we needed to engage with men."

"At that time, it was not popular to engage men in the development world."

"That was the period when we were talking about how to get women in development."

"I was very convinced that we needed to engage with men and when I didn’t get much support for that."

"I decided to found Community Life Projects, where, as the name implies, we relate to young people, women, and families from the framework of community life."

"Thatwas how westarted Community Life Project in 1992."

"I have already mentioned how that’s now led us to found Reclaim Naija in 2010."

""It won't evolve as the industry wants, but as the user chooses."

""Most people read on their phones or tablets, not on an e-reader."

"“E-books now have all the potential to grow Human beings have always loved being told beautiful stories, more entertaining than their daily lives.”"

"My issue is just oversight and making sure that I can turn back to Michiganders and say, if you are going to make the decision to invest in crypto, you are safe. You are not going to be scammed. You are not going to be defrauded out of that money. ...This administration has ...systematically dismantled independent commissions: the FTC, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the ...So now we have a new industry, crypto ...and I'm supportive of figuring out good regulation. ...Michigan is the number two online casino and sports betting state, $74 million annually. The tribes and our licensed sports prediction markets are the ones who control that. My understanding is that the CFTC regulations are clear on this issue, that sports contracts should not be allowed because they are equivalent to... gambling. ...President Trump announced that he is launching his own Truth Predict that would ...support event contracts and ...be traded."

"[M]ost Americans who voted for President Trump... did not vote for chaos. ...They didn't vote for cuts to veterans. They didn't vote for...tariffs. ...[I]n my state, it was an economic security vote. ...[H]e is gonna make you pay in every corner of your life. ...He may create a self-inflicted recession."

"I'm a national-security person, so I made a quad chart. ...I decided to work on the issues that fell into the quadrant that was both strategic and irreversible."

"In 2008, 2009, 2010, our recession was pretty close to a depression in Michigan. ...I'm not gonna stand silent while he threatens that in my state."

"[W]e need to get back to... fundamentals. The middle class is... essential... We need to grow and expand it. ...[W]e need to focus on... economic security... national security, and... democracy."

"I come from a world of war planning... of constant, prudent planning.... where you can't just play defense only. There's no such thing as winning, in any operation or in any war, by just playing defense. What we owe the country is a strategy that does more than play defense."

"There’s a lot of leaders in the Democratic Party. I liken it to a solar system. We have stars, and we have planets with their own gravitational pull, but we don’t have a sun that we all center around."

"I would push and prod for... [a] unified approach... I was going to take my best stab at it... We have lots of ideas, lots of different voices, and so in order to keep that coalition together, people have treated each other very carefully and run party offices and the party apparatus by consensus."

"Kamala Harris had a very short time to formulate her campaign. ...Donald Trump, whether you believe him or not, prioritized the talking point of cost of living and the economy. Democrats have policy plans... about good things... I still think we have good ideas. But when you prioritize everything, you actually prioritize nothing."

"Trump has been very clear about his intent. At Quantico... he instructed his military brass to use cities as "training grounds" and many times he's floated the idea of using the Insurrection Act so that military units can raid, detain and arrest ."

"At YTF, we believe that emerging technologies, like 3D printing, allow people to design, invent and create the world they envision for themselves."

"In the Senate, we don’t... divide into progressive versus moderate... behind closed doors. The real debate... is: Do you believe that Trump’s second term is an existential threat to American democracy, or... like his first term, survivable if we... wait... and let his bad policies boomerang on him? ...[S]ome ...have been around and seen so many things ...in Washington that their approach... is just: wait. I do not fall in that camp. It’s not just about age. It’s approach. ...It is not like being in leadership means you’re automatically old guard and need to be booted out. But... leaders in the party are feeling upward pressure... [T]hat’s a good thing."

"If there's a threat coming from abroad or, you know, something happening, you have to call balls and strikes on that or else people can get, you know, deeply hurt."

"The smell of that - the burning buildings and that very sort of toxic chemically smell that was just hanging over New York for weeks, if not months, and it completely changed my life."

"I really believe that the existential threat to the country is not coming from abroad. It's the shrinking middle-class at home and what that does to our stability here."