"Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place."

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Source : "Rail vs. Pipeline Is the Wrong Question" by David Suzuki, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2014.

David Suzuki

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“My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.”
“Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:---touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too.â€¨”
“If the press see you looking normal they can suddenly be 'oh, she's got a spot on her face, she's having a bad day'. That can be quite cruel.”
“The great person never loses a childlike spirit.”
“The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.”

Source : Shashi Tharoor (2007). “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-century Power”, p.113, Penguin Books India
“Bless more; blame less.”
“If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you canâ€™t see yourself doing it, usually you canâ€™t achieve it.”
“For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.”

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