"My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe"

-- Jerry Brown

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“When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty.”

Source : "A Surprising Record From Gil Scott Heron". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. February 11, 2010.
“Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.”

Source : "Artur Davis: This isn't the Democratic Party I used to know". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.
“Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give me its natural productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in history:-not accidentally, but necessarily; not at any particular epoch, but in all; in short, -what idea he is called to represent.”

Source : Victor Cousin (1832). “Introduction to the History of Philosophy”, p.240
“The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in the hands of one person, or a small group of people, instead of a huge party-state apparatus. The possibility of a mistake is greater now.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.”
“There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.”
“What a fine weather today! Canâ€™t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
“Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.”

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