"We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable."

-- Jean-Michel Cousteau

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“On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an extraordinarily skewed distribution system, substituting medium-run threats for short-term threats for the majority of the world's population, particularly the 50 to 80 percent at the bottom.”
“I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.”

Source : "The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified?" by Mark Kermode, Romola Garai, Anna Smith and Nicci Gerrard, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.
“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (1972). “Let's Abolish Government”, Ayer Company Pub
“I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I'm less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it's important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along.”
“I always had plenty of ideas. I didnâ€™t exactly have them. They grewâ€”little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.”
“I am forever grateful for Cheers.”
“Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.”
“To me, God is like this happy bus driver.”

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