"Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?"

-- Marcus Aurelius

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“Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.”
“We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial â€“ that we're creating incomplete human beings.”
“I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss." Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it. Find your own way and make your own contribution. Find a way to make a contribution to this society because God knows we need contributions from the coming generation. This planet and this civilization is in need. I see it as a time of need.”

Source : Interview with Karleigh Moore, tech.mit.edu. April 1, 2014.
“Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.”
“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
“We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution.”
“I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.”

Source : Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.
“Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put teams of people on the frontline in the battle against feral animals, wildfires and noxious weeds. Science underpins everything we do.”

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