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Jai Ganesh

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Civil Quotes - II

Civil Quotes - II

1. Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest. - Stephen Hawking

2. Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society. - Ban Ki-moon

3. Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. - Herodotus

4. Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. - Kofi Annan

5. We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8. - Kamala Harris

6. I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. - Ronald Reagan

7. We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy. - Jimmy Carter

8. Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. - Edmund Burke.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.