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- South African police have charged a British tabloid journalist with helping a fan gain access to the England dressing room after a World Cup soccer match, national police commissioner Bheki Cele said on Tuesday ... Wright has been charged with attempting to "defeat the ends of justice" ...
- The U.S. Geological Survey is blaming day-to-day seismological changes for Sunday's 7.2 earthquake along the U.S.-Mexico border. But Deepak Chopra, the famed alternative-medicine practitioner and transcendental meditation guru, is pretty sure he knows what really happened.
"Had a powerful meditation just now -- caused an earthquake in Southern California," Chopra wrote to his nearly 179,000 Twitter followers shortly after the quake. - Passion is contagious. It's an icy heart which can resist Gene Miller's call to be dashing and daring, courageous and caring.
- Why am I not following anyone on Twitter? Because superheroes don't follow.
- "We will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we will parachute in...But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people."
- The most effective secret identity is the one that nobody knows about.
- "I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility...It is an award that speaks to our highest aspirations that for all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice."
- Working around your parents' schedule is no way to fight crime and makes appointments with evil all but impossible to keep.
- [Anatoly Perminov, the head of Russia's federal space agency] said that he heard from a scientist that Apophis [an asteroid] is getting closer and may hit the planet. "I don't remember exactly, but it seems to me it could hit the Earth by 2032," Perminov said.
"People's lives are at stake. We should pay several hundred million dollars and build a system that would allow us to prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people," Perminov said. - A psychology professor, Frank Farley of Philadelphia's Temple University, who studies heroism, describes a ''situational hero'' as someone who ''lives an ordinary life and seeks no great adventures. [But] he is the man of the hour, because he and only he can do what must be done''.
- A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al-Qaida's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism, it is a recognition of history.
- A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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