"On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence"

-- Kofi Annan

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“Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.”
“The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.”
“The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a line around the incomprehensible largeness of reality and wrestle it into something learnable and manipulable. Existence is devoid of plot, theme, and most of all moral.”
“Whatever your body type is, just use it. There are definitely things that I can do that skinnier people can't do. But then there are things that skinnier people do that I'll never be able to do, like run a marathon. There's just no way that will ever happen.”

Source : "Nude Female Athletes Preach Body Love On ESPN’s Cover" by Nina Friend, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2015.
“We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear in the American people--fear of communism, fear of terrorism, fear of immigrants, fear of people based on race and religion, fear of gays and lesbians in love who just want to get married and fear of people who are somehow different. It is fear that allows political leaders to manipulate us all and distort our national priorities.”

Source : Mike Gravel (2011). “A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It”, p.252, Seven Stories Press
“What usually comes first is the contract.”
“Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.”
“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”

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