"THE WORLD is over-armed and peace is under-funded."

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Source : "Disarm and develop – UN expert urges win-win proposition for States and peoples". www.ohchr.org.

Ban Ki-moon

“To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.”
“Do not make judgments, and you will travel no quicker road to the forgiveness of your sins. 'Judge not, so that you may not be judged' (Lk. 6:37).”
“If a man does his best, what else is there?”
“Cultivate an appreciation and passion for books. Iâ€™m using passion in the fullest sense of the word: a deep, fervent emotion, a state of intense desire; an enthusiastic ardor for something or someone.”
“It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.”

Source : W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine (1981). “Theories and Things”, p.21, Harvard University Press
“I learn things late-and only the hard way.”
“Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.”

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