"We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution â€” like, what do we want to be when we grow up?"

-- Paul Gilding

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“Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence. The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize. Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something created for its own sake.”
“We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.”
“If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should ever need another emblem, one which is friendly and pleasant, then I think they should choose the grapefruit. Or rather the half grapefruit, for this fruit only comes in halves, I believe. Practically speaking, it is always yellow, always just as fresh and well served. And it always comes at the same, still hopeful hour of the morning.”
“The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.”
“I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.”

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“For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.”
“Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.”
“Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.”

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