"The real work of an expedition begins when you return."

-- Louise Boyd

#Real Quotes #Return Quotes #Expeditions Quotes

“If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.”

Source : Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.167, Harper Collins
“You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928”

Source : Title of book (1928)
“We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were brough into being after the 2nd World War, and they're now failing us ever more catastropically. Wild Law shows just how radical we now need to be in creating new institutions that are genuinely 'fit for purpose' in the 21st Century.”
“If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?”
“Only about half of all commercials actually work.”
“To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.”

Source : "Rapport historique sur les progrès des sciences naturelles depuis 1789, et sur leur état actuel". Book edited by Georges Cuvier (translated), 1810.
“I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I believe in.”

Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
“Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.”

Source : "Testament to a Lost People". www.nytimes.com. 1983.

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