"The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa."

-- Charles C. Mann

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“They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.”

Source : "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, www.imdb.com. August 30, 2003.
“By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as that meter sticks shorten when they move or that simultaneous position and momentum have no meaning, but in the insight that we had not been using our minds properly and that it is important to find out how to do so.”
“Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race- small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.”
“I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.”
“Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.”
“I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.”
“Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.”

Source : Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
“Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.”

Source : Miljenko Jergović (1997). “Sarajevo Marlboro”, Penguin Uk

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