"We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our environment and securing a sustainable future for us all"

-- Lionel Shriver

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“I'm kinda racist... I don't really like dark butts too much... It's rare that I do dark butts. Like really rare... It's like, no darker than me. No darker than me. I love the pool test.... If you can be like 'Yo, baby. I met you in the club. Let's go back to my house. Jump in the pool exactly like you are.'-And you don't come looking better wet than you were before you got in the pool then that's not a good look.”
“Thereâ€™s more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior â€” the best warrior â€” isnâ€™t cruel or mean. He doesnâ€™t claw an enemy who canâ€™t fight back. Whereâ€™s the honor in that?”
“And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.”

Source : "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide". Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange, 1976.
“I like things that look like mistakes.”
“When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.”
“Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.”
“I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.”

Source : "NASA Astronaut Discusses Gravity and the Dangers of Spacewalking". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.
“If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion.”

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