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“I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.”
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“Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.”
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“It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.”
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“When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.”
Source : "Rodney Brooks: Robots will invade our lives". Prophetic talk, en.tiny.ted.com. 2003. 
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“My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.”
Source : "New Music Express" interview with Nick Kent, 1978.
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“Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.”
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“If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.”
Source : William J. Bennett (1993). “The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories”, Simon and Schuster
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“The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The variation we are seeing in temperature or rainfall is double the rate of the average. That suggests that we are going to have more droughts, we are going to have more floods, we are going to have more sea surges and we are going to have more storms. These are the sort of changes that are going to affect us in quite a short timescale”
