"Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?"

-- Thomas Homer-Dixon

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“It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.”
“Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.”

Source : James Tiptree, Jr. (2016). “Brightness Falls from the Air”, p.138, Hachette UK
“I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.”
“A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.”
“In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.”

Source : Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”
“You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.”
“If you go out on a date, for the first date, a guy should pay, a guy should be respectful and, you know, I'm not saying roll out a red carpet, but, like, open the door and just be polite and just have common courtesy. I don't think that's too much to ask.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“the pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ...”

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