"Might I be the one I am looking for?"

-- Natalie Clifford Barney

“Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see.”

Source : 1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.
“We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.”
“To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it.”
“This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
“On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.”

Source : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.51, Princeton University Press
“No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.”
“The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe.”

Source : "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.
“After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.”

Source : Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.7, Atlantic Monthly Press

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