"If [a student's] collegeâ€™s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they wonâ€™t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree."

-- Bill McKibben

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“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
“The secret of my success is my hairspray.”
“Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is a mental habit of the ego that we need to become aware of in order to see the consequences. Only then can we see into our thought system and realize that nothing could be more of a waste of time than to resist and complain about what already is.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“The only way I can stop people from stealing is also not to steal myself, and it's one of the most difficult things.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.”

Source : James Bryan Smith (2010). “The Good and Beautiful Life: Putting on the Character of Christ”, p.56, InterVarsity Press
“The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.”
“I donâ€™t like gambling very much. I donâ€™t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.”
“For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?”

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