"We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves."

-- Peter Yarrow

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“One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's definition of success and to try to figure out, instead, what really is best for my own children, what unique combination of structure and freedom, nurturing and challenge, education and exploration, each of them needs in order to grow and bloom.”
“What else could I tell them? I like my women like I like my whiskey: 12 years old and mixed up with coke.”
“I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.”
“In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses.”

Source : David Easton (2007). “The Rammed Earth House”, p.54, Chelsea Green Publishing
“I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.”
“It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.”

Source : Avicenna, Desmond Christopher Mandeville, Aristotle (1927). “De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum, being sections of the Kitāb al-shifâ: The Latin and Arabic texts, edited with an English translation of the latter and with critical notes”
“You should not ask questions without knowledge.”
“Most people over estimate others talents and underestimate their own.”

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