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“First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.”
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“Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
Source : YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.
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“The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.”
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“We are better able to study our neighbors than ourselves, and their actions than our own.”
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“When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.”
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“The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.”
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“I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.”
Source : "Rodney King: 'I had to learn to forgive'" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2012.
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“Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.”
Source : Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Eagle”, p.21, Macmillan