"I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun."

-- Peter Singer

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“Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.”
“She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But sheâ€™s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.”
“Never despair, keep pushing on!”
“Never put anything past anyone. Stop expecting people to be as genuine as you are, it's never the case & it will almost always be a let down.”
“Souls live on in perpetual echoes.”
“Il ne fallait jamais faire des expÃ©riences pour confirmer ses idÃ©es, mais simplement pour les contrÃ´ler. We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.”
“I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.”

Source : CDC Telebriefing in West Africa, www.cdc.gov. September 2, 2014.
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.”

Source : Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco

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