"Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text."

-- James Lovelock

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“Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.”
“I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.”
“I've listened to Republicans say over and over again that we should focus on enforcing the laws that we have. The great hypocrisy of that statement is that they are deliberately handcuffing the enforcement agency that oversees current law.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I know that Marianne Williamson cannot be bought”
“The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.”

Source : "The dangers of a closed mind" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2009.
“A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.”
“They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”
“Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity. Â It is not synonymous with certain success. Â Why should one's attempts always be attended by success? Â Success breeds arrogance and man's spiritual progress is thus arrested. Â Failure, on the other hand, is beneficial, inasmuch as it opens his eyes to his limitations and prepares him to surrender himself. Â Self surrender is synonymous with eternal happiness.”

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