"Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves."

-- Barbara Ehrenreich

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“Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation, and flashes of inspiration prove to be excellent sources of novel approaches, new ways of looking at things, new discoveries, and new information. We do not disparage those ideas derived from religious experience, altered states of consciousness, or the emotions; we merely declare that testing these ideas against reality is the only way to determine their validity as knowledge.”
“I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.”
“The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.”

Source : "The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity". TEDGlobal 2011, www.ted.com. July 2011.
“A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world”

Source : Ron Rash (2009). “Serena”, p.273, Canongate Books
“The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I cannot conceive of a better book about Capitol Hill. An unforgettable, epic achievement in the art of biography.”
“Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1093, Delphi Classics
“Can you spare some change? is never a good pick up line.”
“We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.”

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