“Your children are not your children/ They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself/ They come through you but not from you,/ And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.” – Khalil Gibran …

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.” — George Bernard Shaw
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“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.” — Louis Pasteur …

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.” — G. K. Chesterton …

“I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even – no, especially – when the truth is difficult.” — Ayelet Waldman …

“Global warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening.” — James Hansen …

“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.” — George Bernard Shaw …

“What makes an apocalypse an apocalypse is the veil-lifting revelation that the world has definitely and decisively changed, that the new world order has been set into motion already. There’s no going back now, which is a start. The end is a beginning.” — Nathan Schneider …

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” — George Orwell …