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Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.


Warren Christopher


#borders #crime #degradation #movements #narcotics

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.


Norman Douglas


#consolations #corner #create #creatures #deserves

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.


Mac Thornberry


#allowing #barrels #billions #drilling #feet

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.


James Wolcott


#been #book #critics #cultural #dance

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.


Noam Chomsky


#atrocities #called #coming #go #government

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.


Emile M. Cioran


#anxiety #ideas #impersonal #philosophy #refuge

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.


Leonard Cohen


#refuge #sense #sleeping #superiority #world

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.


Michael Crichton


#avoid #been #claim #claiming #consensus

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.


Quentin Crisp


#miserable #refuge #sex

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.


Max Frisch


#doomed #final #man #refuge