"In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns."

-- Benjamin Franklin

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“Nature is not a drag on growth. Its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development”

Source : "Why the economy needs nature" by Tony Juniper, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2013.
“I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful.”
“Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.”
“The precise statement of any problem is the most important step in its solution.”
“The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.”
“You learn the most when youâ€™re out on the edge.”
“I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am.”
“There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.”

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