"That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology; it's an unprecedented abdication of personal responsibility and a ubiquitous benchmark of abnormality."

-- Joel Salatin

#Responsibility Quotes #Technology Quotes #California Quotes

“Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.”
“A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.”
“Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.”
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”

Source : Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.463, Simon and Schuster
“When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.”

Source : Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.12, Penguin
“We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.”

Source : Denise Levertov, Paul A. Lacey (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.161, New Directions Publishing
“I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.”
“I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'”

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