"Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict."

-- Kofi Annan

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“I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the scientifically unsound notions of the young-Earth creationists and other anti-evolutionists ... They are so far off the scale that their scientific claims need not be taken seriously. Their distortions and misrepresentations of the scientific facts are not consistent with their self-righteous claims of acting to protect all that is good and moral.”
“When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived.”
“Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.”

Source : "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“Comedians are the nearest to suicide.”
“I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.”

Source : "Meet the puppet master" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.
“My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.”
“I think as this generation of electronic musicians goes on, popular electronic music will be more and more accepted. It's gonna get less confusing. You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core.”

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