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• New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Hand
  • Democracy

• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • You
  • Value
  • Painting

• If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Change

• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Respect

• Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Why
  • Question
  • Marriage

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Boyfriend
  • Cheating

• I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Opinion

• There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mean
  • Always
  • Peoples

• My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Band

• Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mistake

• I never even think about the physicality of roles, until honestly I get the gig and I think, 'OK, now what do I have to do in this one?' Like, I approach it thinking more about the character - do I respond to it? Is it something I think I can play? Does it seem like it'll be fun?

  

  Halle Berry
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Fun

• Why should we add your book to the atomic weapons arrayed against us by our enemies. Publication of your book would help our enemies.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Why
  • Book
  • Help

• By thunders of white silence.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Silence

• Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Nature

• A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress – though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Opinion
  • Progress

• There is always something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

  

  Agatha Christie

• When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Night
  • Wind
  • Sky

• And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden and the earth and the sun. When Cassandra opened her eyes, she realized she was crying. She wasn't sad, though, these were the tears of being found, of having come home after a long time away.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Garden

• Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Sorrow
  • Personal
  • Size

• I'd go to clinics and hear coaches say, 'You block with your helmet. You tackle with your helmet.' I'd say, 'No way! You block with your shoulder. It's a lot stronger blow, and you don't risk nearly as much. Why be stupid?'

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Why
  • Risk
  • Stupid

• Jack: pointing a pistol at Bob's trousers I'm going to blow your brains out.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Blow