"Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom."

-- James T. Shotwell

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“This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves.”
“I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.”
“Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.”
“James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these were the guys who really got rock'n'roll going. I like to start with the origin of things, because once it gets along it changes. It's so interesting to see how it really was in the beginning.”
“As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.”
“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.”

Source : Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.288, Macmillan
“As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment of silence' is a deafening roar to a nonbeliever.”
“As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.”

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