Queen Elizabeth I - Quotes

 The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof. 

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Bill Maher - Quotes

 You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash. 

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Michael Specter - Quotes

 People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free. 

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James Patterson - Quotes

 Oz thinks I'm beautiful, 

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Al Gore - Quotes

 The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future. 

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Toba Beta - Quotes

 Judgmental heart has lack of introspection. 

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - Quotes

 Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments. 

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Ayn Rand - Quotes

 Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man. 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power in the here and now. One thinks of the painstaking, cloud-dispelling labor of British scientists from Isaac Newton to Joseph Priestley to Charles Darwin to Ernest Rutherford to Alan Turing and Francis Crick, much of it built upon the shoulders of Galileo and Copernicus, only to see it casually slandered by a moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of Hanover. An awful embarrassment awaits the British if they do not declare for a republic based on verifiable laws and principles, both political and scientific. 

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Friends - Quotes

 Rachel:
Do you know the only person who'd wanna listen to this? A mental health professional. And that's only because they get paid a hundred dollars an hour.
 

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As Good as It Gets - Quotes

 Frank Sachs:
If there's a mental health organization that raises money for people like you, be sure to let me know.
Melvin Udall:
Last word freak.
 

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Rachel Carson - Quotes

 Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.  

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Michel de Montaigne - Quotes

 It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account. 

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Mother Teresa - Quotes

 If you judge people, you have no time to love them. 

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Mahathir Mohamad - Quotes

 I'm a fundamentalist in the true sense. That is to say, I follow the fundamentals of religion...

But for over 1,400 years people have been interpreting and re-interpreting the religion to suit their own purpose!

...These [extremist and terrorist acts] are not Islamic fundamentals any more than the Christians who burned people at the stake are fundamentalist. They are actually deviating from the teachings of the religion! 

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Anne Lamott - Quotes

 You can safely assume you have made God in your own image, when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. 

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Chuck Palahniuk - Quotes

 Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. 

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Emilie Autumn - Quotes

 It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind? 

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Jean Rostand - Quotes

 The obligation to endure gives us the right to know. 

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James Taranto - Quotes

 The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way 

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Quotes

 The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist... 

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Brandon Sanderson - Quotes

 I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease. 

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James Goldsmith - Quotes

 The first time I read an excellent work,

it is to me just as if I gained a new friend;

and when I read over a book I have perused before,

it resembles the meeting of an old one. 

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Naomi Klein - Quotes

 Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when the conservative leader Newt Gingrich unveiled the slogan 'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less' 

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- Quotes

 Oh, for a nook and a story-book,

With tales both new and old;

For a jolly good book whereon to look

Is better to me than gold. 

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Toba Beta - Quotes

 A judgmental heart keeps listening to the things that annoy her. 

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Thomas Moore - Quotes

 Go where we may, rest where we will,

Eternal London haunts us still. 

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Ace Frehley - Quotes

 I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations. 

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Susan Campbell - Quotes

 So you raise up a few generations of young girls, telling them that they should step to the back of the bus, ingrain that in their psyche, preach it to them from the pulpit, hold up as ideal examples women doing precisely that, and in a few years, you can step back; you need say no more. Your work is done, because you have carefully created a herd of women who know and even begrudgingly accept that their place is secondary, just outside the limelight, clapping for and cheering on the important people who were never taught to put others first. 

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Kate Braverman - Quotes

 The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed. 

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Ariana Reines - Quotes

 I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b. 

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Richard Adams - Quotes

 There's terrible evil in the world. 

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Edward O. Wilson - Quotes

 One planet, one experiment. 

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Milton Friedman - Quotes

 Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants to have the right amount of pollution. We can't really afford to eliminate it - not without abandoning all the benefits of technology that we not only enjoy but on which we depend. 

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J.D. Salinger - Quotes

 We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, two drugstore tuna-fish sandwiches, then a movie she wanted to see, something with Greer Garson in it. I looked at her several times in the dark when Greer Garson 

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Lois Lenski - Quotes

 A new respect for Nature had been learned, a new kinship with sun and water and soil....They had learned that while Nature is often beautiful and kind, her laws must be respected, for they are ruthless and inexorable as well. Man must accept these laws and adjust his way of living to them. Then only can he prosper. 

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Lois Lenski - Quotes

 A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits. 

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Henry David Thoreau - Quotes

 He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. 

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Edward O. Wilson - Quotes

 Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. 

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Herman Melville - Quotes

 Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks. 

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Winifred Gallagher - Quotes

 Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to  

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Ernst Bloch - Quotes

 Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors. 

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