"In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone."

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Source : "A Conversation With Michelle Bachelet". www.cfr.org. September 25, 2008.

Michelle Bachelet

#Challenges Quotes #World Quotes #Today Quotes

“The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.”
“Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didnâ€™t keep a hard eye on herself.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2011). “The Brief History of the Dead”, p.22, Hachette UK
“A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.”
“A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead crane with its ten-ton load, the flashing skull and crossbones and danger, radioactivity signs. A theorist's only real hazard is stabbing himself with a pencil while attacking a bug that crawls out of his calculations.”

Source : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.”
“Our need will be the real creator.”
“Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.”

Source : Joy Browne, M.D. (2010). “The Nine Fantasies That Will Ruin Your Life (and the Eight Realities That Will Save You)”, p.184, Harmony
“Men might be chastised for being promiscuous, but I think they're more likely to be given a pass, due to a "men will be men" attitude that still prevails in the Western world. They don't usually experience anything like the virulent shaming and verbal abuse that women who are sexually adventurous are sometimes prone to experiencing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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