"Never order food in excess of your body weight."

-- Erma Bombeck

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“We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.”
“The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.”
“The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly”

Source : "Why I'm moving to Europe". Interview with Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2006.
“As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?”
“I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.”
“Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.”
“The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.”
“The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.”

Source : Jeffrey Sachs (2011). “The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime”, p.388, Penguin UK

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