Steven Gould famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes.
-- Steven Gould

#Marijuana #People #Needs
Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.
-- Steven Gould

#Australia #Snakes #Exotic
There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.
-- Steven Gould

#Abandonment #Labor

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable
It is not a medicine. You don't know what's in it. If there were compelling scientific and medical data supporting marijuana's medical benefits that would be one thing. But the data is not there.
We think of cannabis as a drug, in accordance with international opinions. This means that even consuming small amounts can lead to very severe dependence. With alcohol or cigarettes however, sensibly limited consumption does not bear the risk of immediate addictiveness as this is the case with cannabis according to our opinion. With alcohol there surely is an element of a tradition. However, enjoyed in moderation, as supplement to a meal for example, alcohol is not something that causes immediate dependence. Still, there is a great need for prevention and information in this matter.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Steven Gould famous quotes

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