"The problem is so severe that trying to say, "First we'll fix the government and then we'll tackle climate change," or, "First we have to figure out alternative systems to capitalism and then we'll tackle climate change," I don't see how those things are possible in the very short term."

-- Margaret D. Klein

#Government Quotes #Trying Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary exchanges is surely not their commonalities under physical description. A natural kind like a monetary exchange could turn out to be co-extensive with a physical natural kind; but if it did, that would be an accident on a cosmic scale.”
“I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain.”
“Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”
“Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about the best film school you can get.”
“Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.”
“We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.”

Source : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.18, Basic Books
“Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.”

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