"All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession."

-- Mary Roach

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“Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.”
“Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.”
“As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development.”
“Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.”

Source : Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.39, Vintage
“The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been for many years past, will be productive of more virtue moral and political. We may look up to Armies for our Defense, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any State should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honored.”
“I try to use social media as a tool for good. Fortunately I can say that social media has treated me pretty well. I've been exempt from a lot of the mean comments. Of course it happens now and then. It's funny because let's say a rude or off-putting comment comes in, rather than ignore it, I'll talk to that person and there are so many times I've gotten apologies, like "I totally understand, I'm with you."”
“I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting.”
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... In fact, violence merely increases hate. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.”

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