"I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we do when our numbers are this huge and out of control. I wonder, what's the carrying capacity for human beings? When do we get to the point when we can't take it anymore, when it becomes too unpleasant to us just to be here because there's too many of us and there's no solitude anymore."

-- Melissa Holbrook Pierson

#Numbers Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.”
“I'm a person of my own opinions, that's how I was raised. I speak what I feel. A lot of people feel the same way but they're scared to talk. They're really scared of the truth - they only want half of the truth. I've been living like that - forever in fear - but I know what to say and how to say it now. I ain't scared of myself. Y'all may be scared; I'm not scared.”

Source : Interview with Jordan Sargent, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2012.
“That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some of the most beautiful passages in the apostolic writings are quotations from Pagan authors, is well known to every scholar... To assert that Christianity communicated to man moral truths previously unknown, argues on the part of the asserted either gross ignorance or wilful fraud.”

Source : Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.166
“While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet I wish to say to my brethren and sisters that these things are the heritage of the Saints of God. â€¦ I have never read of the people of God in any dispensation passing through life, as the sectarian world would say, on flowery beds of ease, without opposition of any kind.”
“I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.”
“I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The media should be a mirror of society, and the world is diverse. So I mean, why shouldn't the fashion industry be diverse? It's just so simple. To me it's ABC, you know? It should not even be explained. It should just be the way it is.”
“Itâ€™s not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.”

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