"Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane."

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Source : "House Hunting in the West Bank" by Gershom Gorenberg, prospect.org. June 4, 2009.

Gary Ackerman

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Unthinkable Quotes

“They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.”
“I'm passionate about pleasing people.”

Source : "Michael Mina's magic touch" by Stacy Finz, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2008.
“Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?”
“The downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.”

Source : Massimo Pigliucci (2010). “Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk”, p.75, University of Chicago Press
“I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.”
“Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?”
“All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 09, 2012
“You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.”

Source : "Listen to the Young, Says Queen". news.bbc.co.uk. November 23, 2007.

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