"I am afraid that I think both the near future environmental reality and political landscape are not looking good - and they are connected. The best tool we have for advancing environmental solutions is our democracy, and we can't currently access it because it has been so thoroughly hijacked by big corporate interests."

-- Annie Leonard

#Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Political Quotes

“Good or bad I propose to be something great!”

Source : "Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.
“But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.”
“What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on”
“If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.”
“Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.”

Source : Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.92, Anchor
“I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.”
“If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.”
“I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.”

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