"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."

-- Charles Kettering

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“Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.”
“I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.”

Source : "Get to Know Sen. Sam Brownback" by Jared Wiener, abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.
“But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.”
“We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).”
“It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.”
“At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.”
“Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?”
“It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.”

Source : Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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