"Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks."

-- Nadine Gordimer

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“I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row.”

Source : "Erica Durance Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 30, 2011.
“We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?”
“Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.”
“I don't need to think that I'm being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that's moral.”

Source : Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.
“If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.”
“By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.”

Source : David Quammen (2012). “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company
“In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"”
“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.”

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