Quotes
Authors
Julian Simon

"Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the worldâ€™s progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is peopleâ€”especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with libertyâ€”who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well."

-- Julian Simon

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“As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.”
“I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.”
“There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.”
“Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them.”
“When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.”
“We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of the dislike between us. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts. And in your institutions we cannot find satisfaction.”
“I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.”

Source : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.68, Oxford University Press, USA
“When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.”

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