"If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true."

-- Michael Bloomberg

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“It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It is the habits and manner of life and the conditions in which its ancestors lived that have in the course of time fashioned its bodily form, its organs and qualities.”
“Many women... have buoyed me up in times of weariness and stress. Each friend was important... Their words have seasoned my life. Influence, just like salt shaken out, is hard to see, but its flavor is hard to miss.”
“I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.”
“I don't think women are interesting enough to merit a book. They're more of a pamphlet sex.”
“You make a new life by making new choices.”
“Peace in its real sense can never be achieved by military measures or technical fixes... It is high time for us to focus our attention on the real problems which are threatening all of us - in fact, life on this planet.”

Source : Hans-Peter Durr's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1987.
“one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.”
“Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists...Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter.”

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