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In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

Ron Wyden

My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. (Comment while testing a microphone before a broadcast 11 Aug 84)

Ronald Reagan

Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.

Christopher Hitchens

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

Daniel Barenboim

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

William Shakespeare

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Max de Pree

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Ezra Pound

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

Margaret Mitchell

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Neil Young

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Kofi Annan

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw