"Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?"

-- Eugene Ormandy

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“You can't heal what you can't feel.”
“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.”

Source : Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.147, University of Arizona Press
“Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got AlcÃ¦us into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.”
“If I lost your respect...I'm just hope you don't look at me as something you regret.”
“Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.”
“I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!”

Source : Corrie ten Boom, Judith Couchman (2003). “Anywhere He Leads Me”
“In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the ostensible purpose of achieving disarmament. Rather, the United States would respect the Charter of the UN and would strive to achieve disarmament and settle the differences among nations through peaceful diplomatic means.”
“I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.”

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