"What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?"

-- Loren Eiseley

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“The optimum human population of earth is zero.”
“There's something that just happens to you when you have a baby, and you look at their little eyes for the first time when you're holding them. They've been safe inside your belly for almost 10 months, and now they're in your arms. Intuition kicks in, where you will do anything for them and you have all the tools inside of you to take care of them.”
“I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.”

Source : "The Great Lost Performance". Live album by Johnny Cash, July 24, 2007.
“After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.”
“My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.”

Source : "Fictional character: Richard Hayden". "Tommy Boy", www.imdb.com. 1995.
“When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.”

Source : "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.
“Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity.”

Source : Lawrence M. Miller (1984). “American spirit: visions of a new corporate culture”, William Morrow & Company
“The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.”

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