"Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution."

-- Aldo Leopold

#Exercise Quotes #Skills Quotes #Negative Quotes

“... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest any precedence in time or superiority in nature of the Father over the Son (cf. Jn. 14:28)? or superiority in any other respect save causation. And we mean by this, that the Son is begotten of the Father and not the Father of the Son, and that the Father naturally is the cause of the Son.”
“Even though it took forever to release a movie, and even though it's a small indie release, the fact that in five years someone will be skipping through Netflix, or Amazon, or whatever and say, "Wow, that was a really cool movie. That was a really great story. Or I was really creeped out, or intrigued by that." You almost kind of forget what it took to get there, or was it in the theaters or not. So that's kind of exciting as a filmmaker. That it doesn't really matter as much the release platform, as much as how can I see it?”
“We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.”
“Dressing is a way of life.”

Source : Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.24, Metropolitan Museum of Art
“I like geography. I like to know where places are.”
“Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.”
“I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility).”
“My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was someone who watched over the village, who had the title of mankiller. And I'm not sure what you could equate that to, but it was sort of like a soldier or someone who was responsible for the security of the village, and so anyway this one fellow liked the title mankiller so well that he kept it as his name, and that's who we trace our ancestry back to.”

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