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• Everything we do from this point onward is rearranging the seats on the deck of the Titanic

  Alan Craik

• The most outstanding scientific discovery of the 20th century is not the radio or television, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only those that know the most about it can appreciate how little is known about it. The last word in…

  Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac 1946

• The simple truth is that being environmentally conscious does not hurt anything. What is the problem with having clean water, clean air, healthy products that don't endanger our health? Why are we so quick to support wars, which inevitably spew…

  anonymous

• I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

  Stephen Hawking

• Every act of communication is an act of tremendous courage in which we give ourselves over to two parallel possibilities: the possibility of planting into another mind a seed sprouted in ours and watching it blossom into a breathtaking flower of…

  Maria Popova 2018

• 5 Ways To Deal With Mean People The mean person you love, not the one who gave you the finger on Broad Street last week. Best advice: Leave. Second option: Recognize 0. Accept that nothing you do is going to change them. Forgiveness and…

  Sherrye Richardson 2018

• Dear Rest of the World, As you may have noticed, the United States has developed a serious malfunction, and is taking itself off-line from the global community until we can repair our values. In the meantime, please carry on without us, for after…

  from NYT comments

• Five new ingredients for health food, relaxation, exercise, sleep and happiness

  anonymous

• Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever

  Gandhi

• One day, I hope we will know the answers to all these questions. But there are other challenges, other big questions on the planet which must be answered, and these will also need a new generation who are interested and engaged, and have an…

  Stephen Hawking

• The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

  William Gibson

• art is like love ; the more one gives, the more one receives. One must open oneself completely, admire and worship every detail of nature, and then it will reward one wonderfully; one will receive the blessing of the gods.

  Otto Modersohn

• That you can lose yourself. Everything. All boundaries. All time. That two bodies can become so mixed up, that you don't know who's who or what's what. And just when the sweet confusion is so intense you think you're gonna die... you kind of do.…

  Andrew Martin in the Bicentennial Man

• Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each…

  Kahlil Gibran

• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

• Work like you don't need money Dance like no one's looking Sing like no one's listening Live as though heaven is on earth, and love like you've never been hurt

  Anonymous

• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

  Len Brown

• You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

  Anonymous

• We need a witness to our lives. There are billions of people on the planet…I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything – the good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the…

  from the movie Shall We Dance

• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  H.L. Mencken