"No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. ... I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change.”
“When we speak about climate change, you're a victim of something ... which is happening with deep roots where you don't have - anything to deal with. And people just want to choose a life. That's very much important. And I think one of the key elements of the collective battle we have today, in order to fight against climate change is to provide people the ability to choose a life. To have a better life by behaving differently, by innovating, by creating new type of companies and startups, new type of activities.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“People are quite frequently eccentric.”
“A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.”

Source : 'Piers Plowman', B text (ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, 1987) prologue l. 17
“Forgive those who have hurt you.”
“Nature â€¦ is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them.”
“You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.”
“I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.”

Source : "Conversations with artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.

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