"Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system."

-- Derrick Jensen

#Eight Quotes #Important Quotes #World Quotes

“Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.”

Source : "xkcd (Connoisseur)". Webcomic by Randall Munroe, www.explainxkcd.com. (May 29, 2005 - ).
“What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?”
“I like strong opinions - I'll take that any day over someone who agrees with everything.”
“Luckily I had just finished a Marvel film so I was already in a training mentality and then this movie happened and I was really just trying to focus on like as much cardio as possible because in this film I do a lot of running and a lot of running in 100 degree heat in Austinit was like a sprintit was very much like all one shot running around, sprinting. So I had to build up my cardio to be able to get to that place and also not to like, die.”
“It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton
“The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.”
“Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.”
“As Dr. Chiang puts it, â€œwhile Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.”

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