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“For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war.”
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“If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.”
Source : "TV Mastermind Jane Espenson: From to to Evil Queens". Interview with Neal Broverman, www.advocate.com. October 27, 2011.
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“Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.”
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“The majority of life on Earth is microbial”
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“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came”
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“Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.”
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“It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity in time, immensity in space, infinity in finite, immutability in change, being in becoming, the all, as it were, in that which is nothing. This mystery cannot be comprehended; it can only be gratefully acknowledged.”
Source : Herman Bavinck, John Bolt, John Vriend (2004). “Reformed Dogmatics: God and Creation”, p.49, Baker Academic
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“You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
Source : Goldie Hawn (2006). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, p.321, Penguin