"We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along."

-- David Graeber

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“If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.”
“A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.”
“We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.”
“How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?”
“In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.”

Source : Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.191, Transaction Publishers
“Roddy how many times have you won a World Championship?”
“He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.”
“You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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