"I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response to that is, "Oh well, it's all hopeless. The natural world is getting wrecked, birds are disappearing, the planet is warming and so anything we might do on a smaller scale is meaningless.""

-- Jonathan Franzen

#Thinking Quotes #Bird Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I think being Canadian helps you as a journalist in America, because you're sort of on the outside watching this big party going on, and you're sort of taking mental notes as it goes on. I think if you're in the party the whole time, you don't notice it as much. And I think Canadians are very good observers of American culture.”
“It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.”
“The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.”

Source : Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.127, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.”

Source : MARY MAPES DODGE (1879). “ALONG THE WAY”
“For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.”
“You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.”
“Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto”
“In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.”

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