"Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere."

-- Bill McKibben

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“We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.”

Source : "Why the best thing you can do is fail" By Eddie Obeng, www.cnn.com. December 30, 2012.
“Most of the network television audience now is primarily women, but I think that's because the shows are developed to appeal to women. I don't know that there are too many shows that appeal to guys anymore. I'm not sure why that is, but I think that it may have something to do with the fact that most development staffs are women.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.”

Source : "Part 2: “Keeping Hope Alive” in Somalia with Hawa Abdi and Daughter Deqo Mohamed". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 16, 2013.
“We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.”
“Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.”
“The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.”

Source : "A Theory of Justice". Book by John Rawls, 1971.
“Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.”
“Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 03, 2009

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