"We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings."

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Source : Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1986). “Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors”, p.191, Univ of California Press

Lynn Margulis

#Community Quotes #World Quotes #Landscape Quotes

“I just want people in America to know that Oklahoma is a great place to live. You know, just like states have wildfires in California, or earthquakes or they may have other tornadoes in other areas of the - of the country, you know, this is really a great, great state. Our economy is doing beautifully, and the people are wonderful.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“Directors, like actors, get typecast.”

Source : IGN Interview, www.ign.com. February 11, 2004.
“The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.”
“Although the rumors are of Apple doing an iWatch, I think that design idea is actually too limited.”
“I believe in women, especially thinking women.”
“I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA evidence, which I think should be used in all capital cases, but also with very careful attention. If the wrong guy is put to death, then that's a double tragedy. Not only has an innocent person been executed but the real perpetrator of the crime has not been held accountable for it, and in some cases may be still at large. But I support the death penalty in the most heinous cases.”
“Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival.”

Source : Harold Adams Innis (2007). “Empire and Communications”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield
“Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and, for the most part, accurately.”

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