"I urge North Koreas leaders to reflect on Burmas experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people."

-- Thomas E. Donilon

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“To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.”
“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.”
“Science is simply common sense at its best.”

Source : Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”
“The two most important forms of diversity when it comes to innovation are visible diversity (typically skin color, age, gender, etc.) and underrepresentation (anytime someone is less than 15% of the majority group). Other forms of diversity are also relevant but these are the ones that psychologically play the most role in how someone engages with the innovative process.”
“Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children.”
“If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.”
“We must only learn that independence cannot be gained by a rebellion against the constitution of the universe, or by inverting the laws of life and evolution, but by comprehending them and adapting ourselves to the world in which we live.”

Source : Paul Carus (2008). “The History of the Devil: With 350 Illustrations”, p.473, Courier Corporation
“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.”

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