"A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may not be in the United States' interest."

-- Charles H. Percy

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“The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.”
“Kyoto costs a lot, does nothing to prevent calamity, and pays no compensation in the event of loss. If my insurance broker offered that sort of policy, I would not carry insurance. Instead what my broker offers is a policy that costs a little and pays full compensation in the event of loss. If someone wants to propose that as a policy on global warming, I'm all in favour.”
“It is impossible to be negative while we are giving thanks.”
“If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.”
“Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?”
“The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.”

Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“'m starting to get a swimming physique, which I'm very pleased about, because for me that's the most appealing male physique. It's not show-y off-y Mr Muscle, "Look how much I can bench." It's just a real lean, athletic figure and it doesn't look like you try too hard. When you see people who have huge biceps, it looks like they're in the gym all day. But I think there's a difference between looking muscly and being fit.”

Source : "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, in.askmen.com.

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