"War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion of confidence, of tension, of human rights abuses, really, of so many in areas whose traditional water supplies have been controlled and depleted by occupational authorities. That must stop if we're going to be able to develop a climate for peace."

-- Queen Noor of Jordan

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“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
“The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.”
“Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.”
“My feeling is, if a dog is that hard up to break free, let it go. It's like a boyfriend who wants to break up. We all know the old adage "If you set someone free, and he never comes back, then he was never yours." I understand the main fear with setting dogs loose is they could get hit by a car, but so could an ex boyfriend. That's just a chance you have to take.”
“The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.”
“You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!”
“I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because belief is waning fast, and the props are beginning to buckle.”

Source : "The folly of pretence" by Daniel Dennett, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2009.
“At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.”

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