"Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.”
“Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.2, Indiana University Press
“From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which were aimed at changing the very, very dehumanising aspects. Giving greater freedom of movement, giving private property ownership within so-called white South Africa also to blacks. Abolishing the concept of job reservation on the basis of race and colour. Allowing free organisation for trade unions, also black trade unions.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.”

Source : Else Lasker-Schüler (2002). “Selected Poems”, Green Integer Books
“What people don't realize I have put 160 kids through school. I had a gym full of children. Some of those kids slept in the gym. Some of those kids lived in the gyms. I went to those kids schools. I think with the training, I can't make a fighter have that passion that I have, and it takes years to develop a fighter.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.”
“Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical.Â The majority ofÂ thatÂ is useless.”
“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.”

Source : Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.21, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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