"When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience."

-- Michael Shermer

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“Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.”

Source : François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.90, Gallic Books
“I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.”
“Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.”
“Every period has its own optical focus.”
“War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.”
“You just keep going. Nothing that isn't beautiful is worth slowing down for.”
“These issues that exist among people that we are Iranian and what we need to do for Iran are not correct; these issues are not correct. This issue, which is perhaps being discussed everywhere, regarding paying attention to nation and nationality is nonsense in Islam and is against Islam. One of the things that the designers of Imperialism and their agents have promoted is the idea of nation and nationality.”
“hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot”

Source : Lee Child (2008). “Without Fail: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.20, Penguin

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