"The liberal posture really requires a willingness to give to others, and that works, as I say, when you have an expanding pie. But if you don't have an expanding pie, everyone starts hunkering down."

-- Thomas B. Edsall

#Pie Quotes #Giving Quotes #Posture Quotes

“The Universe began when Nothing saw itself in the mirror.”
“The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.”
“The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.”

Source : "The arms race: a programme for world disarmament" by Philip John Noel-Baker, (p. 297), 1960.
“We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.”
“Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends.”
“We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.”
“We donâ€™t come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to protect our young peopleâ€™s minds from those evils.”
“When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.”

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