"Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation."

-- Mark Hoppus

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“Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.”
“There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.”
“Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.”
“Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and for compassion, against cruelty. There is a lot of suffering in the world, but how much suffering can be addressed with literally no time or effort on our part? We can just stop supporting it, by making different choices.”

Source : "Resolved: Eating Animals Is Indefensible" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2010.
“But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.”

Source : Davy Rothbart (2012). “My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays”, p.333, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.”

Source : "Andie MacDowell: Taking Risks, Staying Curious, Agreeing To Disagree". HuffingtonPost Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2011.
“The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.”

Source : Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1889). “The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton”
“The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word.Â We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, irrespective of their descent, name or fortune.Â The memorable words of the great Corsican that every soldier carries a Field Marshal's baton in his knapsack, will find its political complement in Germany.”

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