"The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists."

-- George P. Shultz

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“He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.”
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?”
“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.”
“While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.”
“Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.”

Source : "All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate". www.nytimes.com. March 10, 2011.
“We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society”
“Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's”

Source : Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco
“Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.”

Source : G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.116, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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