"In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to the brink of collapse, we are in danger of doing the same with the environment. Humanity has taken a huge leap in the last decades and become a planetary-scale force - we need to behave as a global civilization if we are not to face catastrophic consequences."

-- Felix Dodds

#Taken Quotes #Loss Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“we become the stories we tell ourselves”
“Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.”
“Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf.”
“No one is any more or any less important than you are.”
“The sun glistened on a drop of water as it fell from his hand to his knee. David wiped it off, but it left no tidemark: there was no more dirt to rub away. He took a deep breath and shivered. He was David. Everything else was washed away, the camp, its smell, its touch--and now he was David, his own master, free--free as long as he could remain so.”
“My fervent hope is that it would be possible for me and my family to leave for the U.S. on Hillary Clintonâ€™s plane,”

Source : "Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clinton’s Plane". Interview with Melinda Liu, www.thedailybeast.com. May 2, 2012.
“Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.”

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