"We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required to play a solo, but you are required to know what instrument you hold and play it as well as you can. You are required to find your place in the score. What we love we must protect. Thatâ€™s what love means. From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act."

Source : Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.122, Da Capo Press

Sandra Steingraber

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“People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.”
“If our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market.”
“I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.”

Source : "Writer/Director Michael Patrick King Interview SEX AND THE CITY 2 – And The Plot is Revealed!". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. March 22, 2010.
“I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?”
“You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.”
“First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.”
“People are starting to acknowledge the direction the media is going. This is a good sign that we'll continue to deliver satire and news and opinion in new and different ways. Why be limited by the medium? I hope that there are more cartoonists and people who are willing to try something new.”
“Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible”

Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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