"We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century."

-- Annalee Newitz

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“The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.”

Source : "Reviving the love Labour's lost". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.
“They say that the best counsel is that of woman.”

Source : "'El médico de su honra' ('The Surgeon of his Honour')". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Act 1, Scene 2, 1637.
“The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.”
“Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.”
“The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.”
“I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.”
“Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life experiences and the other is through literature. Literature has the power to take us outside ourselves and returns to ourselves a changed self.”
“A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.”

Source : "The Commandments" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

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