"Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it."

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Source : Barbara Ward, René Jules Dubos (1972). “Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet: an Unofficial Report Commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment”, Penguin Books

Rene Dubos

#Men Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Environment Quotes

“He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.”
“You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.”
“Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1949). “Selected Writings in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.515, Univ of California Press
“The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.”
“It's important that public funds be spent in research directions that are pushing market frontiers rather than working in existing areas. This means funding research not only on drugs but also on areas like life-style changes, even if the profit potential is lower for Big Pharma as you cannot sell that change as you can sell a medicine.”
“The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.”
“There are times when I feel over-rewarded for what I do for a living, especially when I compare what I can earn to what my brother earns as a firefighter.”

Source : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
“Vague a l'ame â€” melancholy yearning for the end of the world.”

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