"For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed."

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Source : "We've got all the space in the world" by Brendan O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2009.

Susan Blackmore

#Bird Quotes #Flu Quotes #Sake Quotes

“The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom”
“One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.”
“I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.”
“When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.”
“Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.”
“While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I fall in love with them. They are my possession, my mob whose forty minds, under my flashy and domineering control, are to become one, a mind unsullied by errors, unmarked by blots, contaminated by misplaced originalities outside the curriculum, and as full of facts as a pomegranate seed.”
“We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration.”
“It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.”

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