"An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing."

-- Vandana Shiva

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“In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.”
“You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?”
“Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.”
“We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.”

Source : "Ashcroft, senators offer plans to investigate FBI" by From Terry Freiden, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2001.
“As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.”

Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 4: "Princeton Days", p. 76, 1991.
“Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.”
“I would never design anything. I just think that's kind of wack. I hated every rapper fashion line that ever came out, you know what I'm saying? I would never try.”

Source : Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.
“What is not worth understanding is not knowing.”

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