"Dealing with the threat that Secretaries Albright and Cohen have described, the threat from Saddam Hussein, demands constant resolve by the United States and by the international community; and at times, action. As long as he remains in power, we must be prepared to respond firmly to reckless actions that threaten the region and our interests. We've done that successfully over this decade."

-- Sandy Berger

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“Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.”

Source : K. J. Parker (2009). “Devices And Desires: The Engineer Trilogy: Book One”, p.219, Hachette UK
“Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.”
“If there is reincarnation, I would like to be born as Sonu Niigaam.”
“Itâ€™s a similar feeling from being in a community of punk rockers as a teenager and the feeling I still get today when Iâ€™m in a community of skeptical scientists. The idea with both is that you challenge authority, you challenge the dogma. You challenge the doctrine in order to make progress. The thrill of science is the process. Itâ€™s a social process. Itâ€™s a process of collective discovery. Itâ€™s debate, itâ€™s experimentation and itâ€™s verification of claims that might be false. Itâ€™s the greatest foundation for a society.”
“There’s no competitive advantage in being just like everyone else.”

Source : "What Makes a Good Leader Today — And Tomorrow?" by Daniel Burrus, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2015.
“I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was the final authority on whether or not I was anything like a writer. (I'm a timid soul.) I just kept writing stories, because becoming a veterinarian seemed as if it involved too much dissection.”
“The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.”
“I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.”

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