"The most fundamental challenge of the anthropocene concerns agency. For those who lived the Enlightenment dream (always a minority but an influential one), agency was taken for granted. There were existential threats to agency (e.g., determinism) but philosophy mobilized to refute these threats (e.g., by defending libertarianism) or to defuse them (e.g., by showing that they were compatible with agency)."

-- Dale Jamieson

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“Never call your broker on Monday. Out of courtesy and common sense, wait until Tuesday. A good broker is focused on the opening of the market - at home and around the world - and on getting back into a business frame of mind after the weekend.”
“A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.”
“Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back”
“If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they donâ€™t speak out for themselves, all theyâ€™ll get for required reading will be the most bland books available. Instead of finding the information they need at the library, instead of finding novels that illuminate life, they will find only those materials to which nobody could possibly object... In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced â€” writersâ€™ voices, teachersâ€™ voices, studentsâ€™ voices â€” and all because of fear.”
“There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.”

Source : Harold Bell Wright (1970). “The Shepherd of the Hills”, p.30, Pelican Publishing
“We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.”
“I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.”

Source : Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada
“To be successful one must be willing to learn and apply new concepts and not be afraid of change.”

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