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“Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power”
“I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.”
“People make life. The more people, the more life.”
“There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.”
“Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could out-compete real bacteria: They could spread like blowing pollen, replicate swiftly, and reduce the biosphere to dust in a matter of days. Dangerous replicators could easily be too tough, small, and rapidly spreading to stop - at least if we make no preparation. We have trouble enough controlling viruses and fruit flies.”

Source : K. Eric Drexler (1986). “Engines of creation”, Anchor Books
“An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.”

Source : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.70
“It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.”

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