"Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket."

-- Joseph Estrada

#Country Quotes #Government Quotes #Development Quotes

“Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. Sheâ€™d taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone.”
“The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.”
“Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?”
“I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.”
“Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can thus be adequately explicated through the methodological analysis of scientific procedures.”
“1 + 1 = 2. Everything else is derived.”
“In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.”

Source : Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.526, Spectra
“I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.”

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