"If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring."

-- Nicholas Stern

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“The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!”

Source : Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (1973). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter and poet”
“I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity to lay down the physical, psychological, cultural, public infrastructure of a global mega-state, and today we are on the verge of being Honduras?”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.”

Source : "Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS". Interview With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2002.
“I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.”

Source : Paolo Veronese's testimony before the inquisition in Venice, as translated by Charles Yriarte, members.efn.org. July 18, 1573.
“U.S. Constitution is under attack from Fundamentalist Islam and shari'a.”
“A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.”
“Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds, and what she couldnâ€™t stand was howâ€”for many years, reallyâ€”she had been made happy by such a thing. She had not thought she would ever become immune to the beauty of the physical world, but there you were. The river sparkled with the sun that rose, enough that she needed her sunglasses.”

Source : Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.258, Random House
“Ayahuasca is a brew that's made from the vine, which is the hallucinogenic element. And then there's also this leaf from a bush. And the vine is supposed to be the masculine and the bush is supposed to be the feminine, and this female shaman did a tea drinking ceremony with us, where we drank Wyoosa. And the intention was to go and find pieces of your soul that were missing and bring them back to your body so you could live more fully with yourself and it's called soul retrieval.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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