"If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and ***** our experience of timeâ€”and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.."

-- Thomas Mann

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“Those who consume animals not only harm those animals and endanger themselves, but they also threaten the well-being of other humans who currently or will later inhabit the planet. ... It is time for humans to remove their heads from the sand and recognize the risk to themselves that can arise from their maltreatment of other species.”

Source : "Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic". Interview with Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."”

Source : Paul Tsongas (1992). “Heading Home”, Vintage
“We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.”
“Success will be when every child in the world has access to a service like Childline and knows that someone who cares is just a phone call away”
“The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.”

Source : Archibald Rutledge, James A. Casada (1994). “America's Greatest Game Bird: Archibald Rutledge's Turkey Hunting Tales”, p.9, Univ of South Carolina Press
“You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.”
“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?”
“[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.”

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