"By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate starvation and malnutrition from this planet. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too."

-- Peter Singer

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“I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.”
“There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.”
“Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant -- see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention.”
“It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.”
“Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.”
“My history defines who I am.”
“Every movie I’ve made is different, but it’s because I’m different. I’m not the same person I was in 1992 or 1999.”

Source : "Gregg Araki: apocalypse now and again". Interview with Patrik Sandberg, www.dazeddigital.com. March 6, 2015.
“We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.”

Source : Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Stories of Gods and Heroes”, p.6, Thomas Bulfinch

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