"No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already."

-- Josiah Royce

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“Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.”
“...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.”
“What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.”
“You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game, and you can win when you're outscored.”
“The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.”
“There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures”
“I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.”

Source : "Fatou Bensouda: the woman who could redeem the international criminal court" by Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2012.
“[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed, that is the very meaning of scientific work. ... Every scientific "fulfillment" raises new "questions" and cries out to be surpassed rendered obsolete. Everyone who wishes to serve science has to resign himself to this.”

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