"Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose."

-- Simone Weil

#Peace Quotes #Freedom Quotes #4th Of July Quotes

“America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.”
“Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.”

Source : Cary Fowler, Patrick R. Mooney (1990). “Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity”, p.9, University of Arizona Press
“I'm not a grunter, I'm relatively quiet. There's a little bit of breathing out. Some people get really loud! There's a little bit of psyching up sometimes, if you're going for a really heavy weight you might make a little noise, but when lifting, I try and keep it quite quiet - I'm not a fan of male noise in that way to be totally honest. I think when girls do it it's not as bad, but when guys do it it's just like, 'Come on mate, hold it in!'.”
“As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.”
“Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.”
“For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.”

Source : 'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 17, ch. 16
“It's always a struggle with small films to get people in the theater. I think I have a perverse contrarian streak that's always kind of aspired to make movies that are impossible to market.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.”

Source : "Battlestar Galactica's James Callis". Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2008.

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