"I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management."

“There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman. That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.”

Source : Source: www.theaquarian.com

“Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.”

“Another world is possible!' ... Another world is also necessary, for this one is unjust, unsustainable, and unsafe. It's up to us to envision, fight for, and create that world, a world of freedom, real justice, balance, and shared abundance, a world woven in a new design.”

Source : Kristen Madden, Raven Grimassi, Starhawk (2005). “Exploring the Pagan Path: Wisdom from the Elders”, p.259, Career Press

“I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.”

“I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there are forms of greatness, or at least of excellence, which "die and make no sign"; there are martyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake; heroes without the laurel, and conquerors without the triumph.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1834). “Philip Van Artvelde: A Dramatic Romance. In Two Parts”, p.41

“Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.”

Source : "Year of global cooling". m.washingtontimes.com. December 19, 2007.

“The fact that Universal Jurisdiction exists in relation to serious international crimes does convey two important aspects of the global reality: first, that such individuals would be held accountable if international law was applied without regard to geopolitics, and second, that there is enough ambiguity about the reach of UJ that it inhibits such individuals and conveys an impression of de facto criminality.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

“Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.”