"Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books."

-- John Dingell

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“That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.276, Pan Macmillan
“Imagine a wall that's green on one side and red on the other. You stand on one side and only see green. I stand on the other side and only see red. We'll both be right about the color we see, even though we disagree on what color the wall is. Being able to realize that the other person has a valid point, even if you disagree with it, that's maturity.”
“The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.”
“Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.”
“North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.”

Source : "North Korea Claims It Has U.S. Student In Custody". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 22, 2016.
“Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.”
“My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.”
“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”

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