"Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure."

-- Agnes Repplier

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“I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.”
“The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.”
“Loneliness doesnâ€™t exist on any single plane of consciousness. Itâ€™s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again youâ€™re reminded of what this babyâ€™s carrying under the hood.”
“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”
“The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.”
“I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.”
“If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.”
“We have to be careful that we don't keep multiplying disorders and diluting them. I think there is a difference. People talk about Asperger's as high-functioning autism, which I think it is. But it does have some of its own characteristics, like the preservation of language, particularly, which may be right brain dysfunction instead of left brain dysfunction, and we lose something in that, as things lose their specificity, and we keep diluting things. I'm not sure that's helpful.”

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