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"I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists."
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"When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice."

"Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about."

"Today when someone shakes hands with Modi & looks into his eyes, they don't see Modi, but the reflection of 125 crore Indians"

"My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington."

"I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress."

"I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate."

"Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes."

"Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States."

"The Good News of love must be a lifestyle, not a program for Christian."

"Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch."
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"Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history."

"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work."

"No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity."

"It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations."

"The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets."

"From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free."

"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on."

"However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day."

"The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it."
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