"What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of their mental capacities, but excludes every nonhuman animal - again, irrespective of their mental capacities?"

-- Peter Singer

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“I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.”

Source : "A Study in Power: Christine Lagarde" by Camilla Webster, www.forbes.com. August 24, 2011.
“The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.”
“I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.”
“Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.”
“Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.”
“You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.”
“While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.”
“I've seen many miracles take place in people's lives. Financial miracles, miracles of physical healing, mental healing, healing of relationships.”

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