"Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive."

-- James Lovelock

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“Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.”
“In planning an attack, persons have various roles.”
“I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least Id know that I tried.”
“The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That is why we succeed in dealing with it. But about the things we care for â€” which are ourselves, our desires and lusts, our patriotisms and hates â€” we find a harder test of thinking straight and truly. Yet there is the greater need. Only by intellectual rectitude and in that field shall we be saved. There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the unconquerable mind of man.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935.
“What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence of a con man are not interchangeable states, and do not come from the same psychological universe. The success of a man who deals with reality augments his self-confidence. The success of a con man augments his panic.”
“One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.”
“I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.”

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