"I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a climber, I've felt connected to a similar nonconformist culture, one opposed to society's increasing materialism, pollution and corruption. Our approach to the rockâ€”clean, traditional climbing, with the least dependence on equipmentâ€”was an extension of this ethical viewpoint."

-- Lynn Hill

#Children Quotes #War Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.”
“We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment”
“It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to the declaration of a clearly unbalanced nineteenth century philosopher that God is dead! That's cheeky, of course - and one rarely comes away from reading Nietzsche without learning something new and significant. He's certainly FAR more unsettling for faith than any contemporary atheist I know of.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.”
“In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.”

Source : "Mountain of Snakes (Part II)" by Sean Penn, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2008.
“My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.”
“I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.”
“Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.”

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