"You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down."

-- Jonathon Keats

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“Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.”
“So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.”
“If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”
“If, by chance, you find that you are losing hope, tap back into those who inspire you.”
“My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.”
“Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?”

Source : Drew Brees (2010). “Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity”, p.23, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement”

Source : Robert D. Putnam (2001). “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”, p.192, Simon and Schuster
“The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a pool, watching the turquoise water lapping at the tiles, the liquid nets of sun wavering in the blue depths. As if standing at the edge of a pool she delays for a moment the plunge, the quick membrane of chill, the plain shock of immersion.”

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