"The things that happen are an earthquake, another bomb in Iraq, some big jolt on Wall Street in oil prices, and then you have some new study on drought patterns from climate change. Or another little incremental improvement in photovoltaics. Where do those fit in to the daily stream? They don't."

-- Andrew Revkin

#Wall Quotes #Earthquakes Quotes #Oil Quotes

“I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.”
“The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.”

Source : Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.53, Copper Canyon Press
“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.”

Source : Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.318, Modern Library
“Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.”

Source : Thomas Frank (2008). “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule”, p.3, Macmillan
“Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.”
“The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.”
“What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already?”
“Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually.”

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