I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

David Suzuki

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves -- so how can we know anyone else?

Sydney J. Harris

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Immanuel Kant

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

Lauren Graham

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

Edwidge Danticat

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

John H. Holcomb

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

William O. Douglas