The cure for poverty has a name. In fact, it’s called the empowerment of women. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, if you give them some say, take them off the animal cycle of reproduction to which nature and some doctrine — religious doctrine — condemns them, and then if you’ll throw in a handful of seeds, perhaps, and some credit, the floor of everything in that village — education, health, and optimism — will increase. Try it in Bangladesh, try it in Bolivia. It works. It works all the time. Name me one religion that stands for that, or ever has.
— Christopher Hitchens
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America will never be destroyed from the outside.
— Abraham Lincoln
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A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance.
— Niccolò Machiavelli
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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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