"Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts."

-- Robert M. Sapolsky

#Gratitude Quotes #Strong Quotes #Prayer Quotes

“Money will only make you more of what you already are.”
“[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.”

Source : Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.27, Oxford University Press on Demand
“What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.”
“We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects.”

Source : Herbert Bayer, Beaumont Newhall (1977). “Herbert Bayer: Photographic Works an Exhibition”
“She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud her defiance of convention.”
“Piscary killed people, but he didnâ€™t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway.”
“Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.”
“Problem with segregation isn't that people can't live in peaceful harmony singing "Kumbaya" - although that wouldn't be bad. The problem is that many of these Whitopian communities are taking state, local, and federal resources with them.”

Source : "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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