"The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous."

-- John Ruskin

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“Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.”
“She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.”
“We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit”

Source : "Scientists find missing links in chimp genome" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2005.
“I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].”
“At my first Masters, I got the feeling, that if I didn't play well, I wouldn't go to heaven.”
“In 2011 I stopped playing rugby for England so during the Six Nations, which is on during February and March, I was able to grab a week's skiing. But I still had to take it pretty easy because I didn't want to get injured while I was playing for Gloucester. In 2013, when I retired fully from rugby, I finally had the chance to go a couple of times a season.”
“Decriminalizing bodies - this is a big and growing movement.”
“When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.”

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