"Once in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us... not the person that we are, But the angel we may be."

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.”
“When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted diseases, national frontiers are simple irrelevant. Toxins don't stop for customs inspections and microbes don't carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods.”
“I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.”
“Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.”
“Just having a great product won't take you anywhere.”
“Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.”
“And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can go to the zoo or the botanical garden or the aquarium, and then we'll have the most politically correct and scrumptious omelets we can find.”
“If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.”

Source : "River of Smoke". Book by Amitav Ghosh, 2011.

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