At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.


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DEREK JARMAN
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understan...
DEREK JARMAN
An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; ...
DEREK JARMAN
Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
BO DEREK
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average
DEREK WALCOTT
The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about
DEREK BOK
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Har...
DEREK BOK
I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects ou...
DEREK BOK
Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's somethi...
DEREK JETER
For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doin...
DEREK JETER
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important cours...
DEREK BOK
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge ...
DEREK BOK
You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.
DEREK JETER
I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medica...
DEREK THELER
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going ...
DEREK JARMAN
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
BO DEREK
Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.
DEREK JETER
When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.
DEREK JETER
You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business,...
DEREK JETER
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sou...
DEREK WALCOTT
Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what comm...
DEREK BOK
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is ...
DEREK WALCOTT
Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
DEREK WALCOTT
A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
DEREK WALCOTT
We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
DEREK WALCOTT
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins t...
DEREK WALCOTT
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average...
DEREK WALCOTT
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty,...
DEREK WALCOTT
I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music,...
DEREK HOUGH
It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want ...
DEREK HOUGH
Fletcher appeared beside her. He peered at the baby.
"Can it do any tricks yet?"
"I'm sti...
DEREK LANDY
I had an uneventful few days," it told her. "The most exciting thing was an hour-long lecture from t...
DEREK LANDY
The door handle turned. Someone knocked, and a man's voice called, "Uh, hello?"
Valkyrie looked...
DEREK LANDY