"I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God."

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Fred Melamed

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“As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on colonizÂing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.”
“If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.”
“Murder is not about lust and itâ€™s not about violence. Itâ€™s about possession. When you feel the last breath of life coming out of the woman, you look into her eyes. At the point, itâ€™s being God.”
“Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.”

Source : "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 36), 1952.
“You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition”
“Christmas: the one time of year when you canâ€™t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.”
“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.”
“If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.”

Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, transl. by C. D. Yonge, London: H. G. Bohn, p. 196, 1853.

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