"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

-- Lord Byron

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“It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.”

Source : Statement on the Articles of Impeachment, delivered 25 July 1974, House Judiciary Committee
“Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.”
“The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.”
“A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.”
“The best critical consideration of the inherent weakness of a federation of states in which the law of the federation has to be enforced on the states who are its members is contained in the Federalist Papers.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.186, Columbia University Press
“Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'”
“I've never run across anybody who suggested that women need to be reprogrammed. I don't think I've even come across anybody who wanted to teach a girl how to throw right. They just accept it is what it is. But honestly, folks, it's always reprogramming men. It's always men who seem to provide or be at the root of all of these cultural problems. And if we could just make men less like men and more like, I guess, women, then we would be rid of all of these problems.”

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