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“Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.”
Source : Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2007). “Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo”, p.240, Macmillan
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“Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.”
Source : William Barclay (1961). “The Letters of James and Peter”, p.240, Westminster John Knox Press
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“It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.”
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“The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.”
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“When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.”
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“Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.”
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“Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.”
Source : "Oscar Niemeyer, Architect Who Gave Brasilia Its Flair, Dies at 104" by Nicolai Ouroussoff, www.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012. 
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“Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.”
