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“We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.”
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“No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.”
Source : James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books
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“The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.”
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“Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.”
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“There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.”
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“Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.”
Source : "Dear Donald Trump: Winter Does Not Disprove Global Warming" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. January 02, 2014. 
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“Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.”
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“When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart”
Source : Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.135, Wendy Lamb Books
