"If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen."

-- Jane Goodall

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“Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.”

Source : Song: Rock and Roll Girls
“Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.”
“The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather it is a certain form of thought and feeling that rational persons can adopt within the world ... Purity of heart, if one could attain it, would be to see clearly and to act with grace and self-command from this point of view.”
“I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.”
“Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.”
“Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.”
“The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable things. And later on, there were periods where I got this mission to find an articulate voice with rewrites and all. There were periods where I was as dense as Faulkner.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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