"Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality."

-- Kofi Annan

#Reality Quotes #Want Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology.”
“The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.”
“When people felt pain time and time again, they came to fear that pain above all other things. So they tried to ignore it, to forget it was happening, as a way of bearing it. And pretty soon, they would come to feel like they'd accomplished something just by doing that -- even though nothing had changed.”
“If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.”
“Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list.”
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”
“We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with a sense of proportion and Christian humility before the enormous complexity of the world in which it has been given us to live.”
“We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.”

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