"Donald Trump is a bully who thrives on division."

“And just like that, I'd been assessed and judged. Nurse Fashoda didn't know the first thing about me but she'd taken one look at my face and now she reckoned she knew my whole life story -- what had gone before and what was yet to come.”

Source : Malorie Blackman (2007). “Knife Edge”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

“When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.”

Source : "Vince Staples Talks About Prima Donna, Celebrity & Frank Ocean". Interview with Highsnobiety, www.highsnobiety.com.

“A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.”

“A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.”

“The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources.”

Source : "It’s Even Less in Your Genes" by Richard C. Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. May 26, 2011.

“Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.”

“We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock.”

“We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.”