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“Sophisticated human beings were on hand to see this volcano's convulsions, they were able to investigate the event, and they were able to attempt to understand the processes that had caused such dreadful violence...their observations, painstaking and precise as science demanded, collided head-on with a most discomfiting reality: that while in 1883 the world was becoming ever more scientifically advanced, it was in part because of these same advances that its people found themselves in a strangely febrile and delicately balanced condition...”

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Book:Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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“...kota Paris yang memalukan dalam hal selera dan miskin bahagia; di mana jerat pajak mencengkeram sebuah kereta atau mungkin bahkan juga dikenakan pada kenyal payudara...! Ah... betapa tanah Hindia adalah surga bagi gairah...! Sedang Paris, menurut kata orang, adalah surga bagi nalar...! Pemikiran demikian ini lumayan menghibur. Meski bukankah penghiburan paling nyata adalah jika bisa menjumpai seorang perempuan Jawa di kota Paris ini?”

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Book:Voyage de Paris à Java / Un drame au bord de la mer
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“Dalam sepanjang hidupnya dia tak pernah marah-marah. Memang hatinya sering disakiti orang dan dia jengkel. Namun sampai memaki atau membentak dengan kata tak senonoh, tak pernah dia lakukan. Dia adalah seorang dokter. Golongan elit yang terhormat. Dan semua perilaku yang menjengkelkan dari orang yang dihadapinya, dipandangnya sebagai tingkah orang sakit. Apa pun macam perangai orang, dia tak pernah sampai marah. Tidak ada orang yang sehat melakukan kesalahan, pikirnya. Orang yang mencuri, merampok, berkelahi, dan bahkan membunuh, jahat, dan zalim tentulah karena sakit. Kalau bukan karena sakit, karena apa lagi orang-orang demikian? Seperti juga orang-orang sakit pada fisiknya menderita karena penyakit turunan atau karena penularan dari luar. Demikian juga penyakit mental atau jiwa seseorang. Pastilah dapat diobati kalau diagnosa dan terapinya kena, apalagi bila diobati pada saat yang dini. Demikian juga pada kejiwaan seseorang. Pandangan hidup seperti itu menyebabkan hidupnya bisa tenteram dan banyak orang menghormatinya.”

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Book:Bertanya Kerbau pada Pedati: Kumpulan Cerpen
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“During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.”

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Author:Michael Franti
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“It certainly makes sense to expand the pulp industry in Indonesia, .. It's clear that it will be a very competitive exporter of pulp to the rest of the world, including China and India. So the interest by the Indonesian government is clearly to establish a really competitive plantation fiber base to support a globally attractive export industry.”

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Author:David Walker
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“In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five pounds of fish. That is the end point, a pound of fish per person per day to sell for rice. That's where fisheries go if you let it happen. That's where it stabilizes. These people cannot feed their families.”

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Author:Daniel Pauly
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“In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia.”

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Author:Jeff Greenfield
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