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The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.

Bill Buford

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RainSkyAnimalRiverBirdsPlant

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

John F. Kennedy

PeopleSocietyFreeSecretOpen

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

John McCain

TrainingI AmNeedChiefCommander

The benefits of a healthier diet are far-reaching because they also equate to fewer animals being bred into inhumane factory farm conditions and fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

Michael Greger

DietFarmAnimalsGasBenefits

Otherness is what I have always liked about bugs.

Sue Hubbell

AlwaysBugsLikedAbout

Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.

Treat Williams

MomentMindThoughtNeverForever

Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.

Rupert Murdoch

ChangeLongClimate ChangeWillHere

The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle - the production of new fuel, the processing of weapon-usable material, the disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste - would be less vulnerable to proliferation if brought under multinational control.

Mohamed ElBaradei

CommunityJobRisksControlBetter

Iran is not in any sort of routine groupings. It's not an Arab country. It's not part of the Indian subcontinent. So it's in a neighborhood where it has some unique characteristics. We are a country which embraced Islam, learned Arabic, but didn't change its language or its culture... That's what keeps us unique.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

ChangeCultureLanguageRoutineUs

China's government has far more control over the country's economy than our government has over ours, and it is moving from export dependence to a model of growth driven by domestic demand. Any restriction on exports to the U.S. would simply accelerate a process already underway.

Joseph Stiglitz

GrowthGovernmentMovingControl

In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

Jonas Gahr Store

PoliticsMilitaryOutInterestGet

We have to accept the world has become this place where we have to interact with people who are very different from us.

Diego Luna

PeopleWorldPlaceAcceptBecomeUs

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

Claus von Stauffenberg

WorkWarOrganizationStupidThink

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