"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

-- Jane Austen

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“ItÂ´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isnÂ´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you canÂ´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.”
“In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.”
“What we need to do now is recognize that it is the sum total of human ingenuity that is responsible for the epidemics of chronic disease. Throughout most of human history, calories were scarce and hard to get, and physical activity unavoidable. Calories are now abundant, and physical activity is hard to get. We took an unstable, uncertain food supply and fixed it. What now passes as exercise and requires specialized footwear used to be called "survival." You had to do it. Now you never have to do it. We solved it too well. Now we don't need our muscles for anything.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?”

Source : Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult
“Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.”
“Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.”

Source : Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.132, Macmillan
“The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?”
“I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.”

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