"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."

-- Aristotle

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“One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk averse.”

Source : "Big Pharma’s Delicate Dance on Drug Prices". Interview with Peter Loftus, www.wsj.com. February 21, 2016.
“Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
“Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take. When you find the things that you love the most and you want to give those away, that's love. It's when you want somebody to be happier than yourself, but then once you make them happy, it makes you happier.”

Source : "Jack Johnson Interview. Nature, Biofuels, Sustainable Food, New Album, Love, etc". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.”
“...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.”
“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”

Source : The Twelve Seasons: A Perpetual Calendar for the Country "February: The OneWe Could Do Without" (1949)
“I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.”
“You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.”

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