"Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization."

-- W. E. B. Du Bois

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“A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.”
“The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.
“The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.”
“I am proud to be the president of the state of Israel.”

Source : "Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". RFEL Interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.
“I mean, even in these snow pants,check out my ass.”

Source : Jennifer Echols (2009). “The Ex Games”, p.182, Simon and Schuster
“I think spirituality, even if there's no God, even if there's nothing - I consider myself relatively spiritual. I believe in a God. I don't know what it's like, but I do believe in it. It's the only thing that makes any sense. Maybe I'm just looking for order in the chaos. Though, I do believe in Evolution and I do believe in science.”
“Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.”
“Meditation is the only way to freedom from stress as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind.”

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