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“It is your holy work, to deeply love, honor and respect the precious self that you are, the soul that only you hold.”
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“Not for a minute did I believe that this wasn’t goodbye. Still, I had loved and been loved in return, and there was nothing greater than that. It far outweighed the alienation of all the previous years. Bones thought five months was too short; I was amazed I’d been granted joy for so long. “I love you,†he moaned, or maybe I said it. I couldn’t tell the difference anymore. The lines had dissolved between us.”
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“Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.”
Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.169, Macmillan
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“I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.”
Source : Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010
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“The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased.”
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“Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.”
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“I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.”
Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982. 
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“The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of information about the quality of its work. Therefore, the better the job a regulator does the less information it gets about how to improve.”
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“I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.”
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“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
