"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

-- George Washington

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“What's a problem with India, in particular, is female feticide - aborting a female fetus. It is unacceptable and illegal, but it happens on a large scale. Then there's also the killing of baby girls. Female feticide is pretty much middle-class, Indian experts say. This is not happening among the poor; they just have to keep bearing children and hope they live. This casts into doubt the spurious argument that we just have to wait until everyone's middle class and then all of this will sort itself out. Better-off women will have fewer children - but at what cost?”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of war as long as their threat to our nation without a trial.”
“Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.”
“If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides.”
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (1850). “The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy”, p.9
“The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.”
“The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.”

Source : Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.15, 1st World Publishing
“all religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I know no more of him; and I believe that all those are liars who pretend to know more than I do.”

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