"No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press."

-- Amartya Sen

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“My teachers are saying that this is one of our greatest lessons that we have to remember if we're ever going to get out of this problem that we're in, not only with war, but socially and environmentally and everything that is being destroyed. We need to begin to live and create within our hearts rather than live and create from our minds.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart
“Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.”
“When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.”

Source : Howell Raines (1994). “Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis”, Anchor
“I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.”
“Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.”
“I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.”
“This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.”

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