"Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence."

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Jared Diamond

#Thinking Quotes #Islands Quotes #Space Quotes

“Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.”
“I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it”
“People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.”

Source : "Kat Dennings: 'I'm not concerned with fame'" by Justin Harp, www.digitalspy.com. March 24, 2011.
“I have decided to leave Cleaâ€™s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
“feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal”
“It’s just a shame that it had to be played that way.”

Source : "Duke Beats Wisconsin 68-63 To Win 2015 NCAA Tournament" by Lucy McCalmont, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2015.
“I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.”
“I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.”

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