"Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years."

-- Peter Singer

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“I wish I knew exactly who I was. I was talking to a friend earlier about the advice people give each other, advice like "just be yourself," and how this is particularly awful because it presumes we know who we are. As if people are static and unchanging.”
“Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.”

Source : Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.258, Pineapple Press Inc
“You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already ...”

Source : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.112, Clear Press Ltd
“The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases doubles from pre-Industrial Revolution concentrations, the global average temperature will increase, and that the increase will be 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius or 3 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit... In Dallas, for instance, a doubled level of carbon dioxide and other gases like methane, would increase the number of days a year with temperatures above 100 degrees from 19 to 78 each year.”
“It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.”
“Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.”
“To abandon yourself to rage is often to bring upon yourself the fault of another.”
“My dear sister! Iâ€™m amazed to discover that you can compose so delightfully. In a word, your Lied is beautiful. You must compose more often.”

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