"The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right."

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David R. Brower

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“Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.”
“Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.”

Source : "Q&A: Catherine Keener, Nicole Holofcener: 'Enough Said' Duo Talk Their Unique Alliance". Interview with Ramin Setoodeh, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 1, 2013.
“If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.”
“The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.”
“People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.”
“It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way.”
“Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.”

Source : Agapi Stassinopoulos (2012). “Unbinding the Heart: A Dose of Greek Wisdom, Generosity, and Unconditional Love”, p.146, Hay House, Inc

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