"Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies."

-- Garrett Hardin

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“I still get the feeling I got when I started, that's why I'm still doing it after all these years, I still get that full adrenalin rush before I compete.”
“Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.”

Source : "Black Like Him: Obama's Narrow Path to Reelection" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 23, 2015.
“The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Truth only exists for those who cling to it. "Sosuke Aizen”
“If you want to succeed, limit yourself.”
“Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.”
“If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow.”
“When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.”

Source : Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.34, Harper Collins

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