"The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination."

-- Stuart L. Pimm

#Example Quotes #Arguing Quotes #Strategy Quotes

“Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?”
“An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely, the confiscation of their lands and imposition of foreign education, which turns their young people into amnesiacs, threatens the survival not only of these people, but of an entire way of knowing. It is as if one were burning down the oldest universities in the world and their libraries, one after another â€” thereby sacrificing the knowledge of the world's future generations.”

Source : Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.119, Penguin
“Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.”
“No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner”
“That's what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.”
“No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.”
“The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.”
“I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.'”

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