"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Support Quotes #Tolerance Quotes #Intolerance Quotes

“Packing is my pet hate.”
“To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens without good reason . . . then it's a tragedy of diminishment for the whole planet, a loss of one more wild thing, leaving Earth just a little flatter and tamer and simpler and uglier than before.”

Source : David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“I'm still going on bad dates when by now I should be in a bad marriage.”
“It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts...”
“You can live a charmed life by causing others to live a charmed life. That is, be the source of 'charm' -- of charming moments and experiences -- in the life of another. Be everyone else's Lucky Charm! Make all who you touch today feel 'lucky' that you crossed their path. Do this for a week and watch things change. Do it for a month and you'll be a different person.”
“In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i.e., whether a person is a man or woman, is not relevant at all. What is important is that citizens' confidence in politicians and the politics is strong enough to make politicians proud of their profession.”
“Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.”
“We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.”

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