"Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!"

-- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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“Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.”
“Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.”
“I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.”

Source : "60 Minutes" with Mike Wallace, www.cbsnews.com. 2001.
“I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.”
“Revolutionaries don't get job security.”
“When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They canâ€™t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.”
“First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.”

Source : Michael J. Sandel (2005). “Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics”, p.151, Harvard University Press
“Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the costs of war, or just war readiness, are daunting. ... The resulting cost squeeze has led to a new type of society, perhaps best terms a 'depleted' state, in which the military has drained reources from all other social functions.”

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