Mona Baker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.

  • But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

  • If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such cases all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile

  • Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.

  • When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

  • A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

  • Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

  • When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

  • I never make conscious decisions.

  • Yes, I've always been fashion conscious.

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