"To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.”
“The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world”
“Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality, how can you help?”
“You might recognize me, I'm the fourth guy from the left on the evolutionary chart,”

Source : "Half-Truths, Non-Truths, and Louis C.K." by David Haglund, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2015.
“A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, heâ€™ll say it is because he and his friend share similar attitudes. But if you actually quiz the two of them on their attitudes, youâ€™ll find out that what they actually share is similar activities. Weâ€™re friends with the people we do things with, as much as we are with the people we resemble. We donâ€™t seek out friends, in other words. We associate with the people who occupy the same small, physical spaces that we do.”
“The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.”
“We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.”
“Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.”

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