"Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is our home; and, most of all, what becomes of men-all men, of all nations, colors, and creeds. This has become one world, a world for all men. It is only such a world that can now offer us life, and the chance to go on."

-- George Wald

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“By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.”

Source : Joseph Brodsky's opening remarks as United States Poet Laureate, October 1991.
“[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.”
“Those fruity drinks better have a lot of caffeine in them or I'll never make it through World Issues.”
“Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.”
“The march is a way to get in celebration mode.”
“A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.”
“I hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose.”

Source : "George Steinbrenner, Who Built Yankees Into Powerhouse, Dies at 80" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. July 13, 2010.
“In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.”

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