"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."

-- Idries Shah

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“There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.”

Source : Hiroshima ch. 1 (1946)
“Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.”
“Make those important in your life smile today That smile is the most important thing you did today.”
“I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.”
“Energy is a sector of the economy that has been particularly resistant to innovation. This is precisely the problem. It is why we are still dependant on energy sources that are 100 to 150 years old while virtually every other sector of the economy has transformed itself. This is why we believe that the faith that many environmentalists still hold that carbon regulations and taxes will drive sufficient private sector investment into energy markets to create the kind of innovation we need is unfounded.”
“Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by the yearnings of your heart, although its power and presentation is by grace, not by expectation, demand, or requirement. Love is the ultimate paradox, for it is the lamb that is also the lion. Love is the ultimate power, which resides in surrender.”
“Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening”

Source : Pauline Oliveros (2005). “Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice”, p.21, iUniverse
“Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.”

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