"Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use."

“On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom.”

“Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.”

“When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.”

Source : Various, Louis van Loon, Lily de Silva, Webu Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla (2011). “Collected Bodhi Leaves Volume IV: Numbers 91 to 121”, p.245, Buddhist Publication Society

“For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or we shouldn't say that it does, like it would hurt people's feelings.”

Source : Source: www.cbc.ca

“Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.”

“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.”

“At Milan when I was younger, I worked a lot on the leg press because I'd lost a bit of my natural speed as my body was changing. I was growing too fast for the rest of my body to cope and I had some knee problems. I worked really hard in the gym to regain these fast sprints.”

“Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.”

Source : "DNA project reveals Tom Conti's Napoleonic blood and rich roots of Scotland's genetic legacy" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.