"We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another."

-- James Lovelock

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“Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.”
“I had a strong desire to write and some free time.”
“The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.”
“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”
“There are many people of cosmopolitan temperament who are not from the elites of their societies or the world; and while, for a variety of reasons, I think a cosmopolitan spirit does naturally go with city life, that's the life of a very large proportion of human beings today. And I don't think rural people can't be cosmopolitan, in my sense.”

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“One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.”
“The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.”

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“It wasn't that I didn't trust Mark's flying, it was just that, okay, I didn't trust Mark's flying.”

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