"We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it."

-- Christopher Dodd

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“I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.”

Source : Frank Wedekind (2010). “Spring Awakening: A Play”, p.25, Macmillan
“A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.”
“In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.”
“Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.”
“I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.”
“Actuated by these motives, and apprehensive of disturbing the repose of an unsettled reign, Julian surprised the world by an edict which was not unworthy of a statesman or a philosopher. He extended to all the inhabitants of the Roman world the benefits of a free and equal toleration; and the only hardship which he inflicted on the Christians was to deprive them of the power of tormenting their fellow-subjects, whom they stigmatised with the odious titles of idolaters and heretics.”
“Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.”

Source : "Can’t sell your home? Here are 9 tips that will help" by Barbara Corcoran, www.today.com. December 15, 2010.
“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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