"Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error."

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Source : "The Sixth Extinction?" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#Running Quotes #Errors Quotes #Light Quotes

“Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.”
“My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.”
“Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read our Bibles and develop intimacy with the unseen God but ignore the others-oriented life of justice and love and peace that Jesus embodied.”
“Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.”
“Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.”
“You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.”

Source : "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.
“The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.”
“I'm still not sure I didn't hallucinate the conversation while overdosing on his pheromones.”

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