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- We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more…
- We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something…
- Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than…
- For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important…
- More people with HIV/Aids are getting inexpensive anti-retroviral drugs, and their life expectancy has increased, but universal access is still far off, and the disease…
- The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more…
- Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while…
- When New Orleans was flooded in August 2005, the rising water cut off Memorial Medical Centre, a community hospital that was holding more than 200…
- If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot provide…
- We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.
- Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are…
- Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.
- As we realise that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a…
- It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a…
- They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle