"For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger."

-- Pericles

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“The Kyoto treaty ... has no scientific foundation”
“In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!”

Source : "A Case of Conscience". Book by James Blish, Chapter 13 (p. 158), 1958.
“Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.”

Source : "The Stone Age: Angie Stone on her new album, fiance and D'Angelo". "Essence" Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.
“I would beg, borrow, and steal to live in N.Y.C.”
“No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's”

Source : Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.586, Macmillan
“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.”

Source : Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.239, PublicAffairs
“There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it. A people risen, run their race, and die either of themselves or in the hands of another, who, succeeding to their power, take possession of their place, and upon their monuments write new names; such is history.”

Source : "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ".
“What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.”

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