"I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones."

-- Wislawa Szymborska

“A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.”

Source : Derrick Jensen (2000). “A Language Older Than Words”
“When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.”
“I think I had only been working nine months when I got 'Star Trek,' and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that.”
“Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.”
“We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.”
“I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.”
“We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.”
“And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”

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