"In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion."

-- Joseph Wood Krutch

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“We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.”
“Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.”

Source : "Sunday Morning" with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2003.
“I think you have to include your legacy in everything that you do because it makes you proceed with a little more mindfulness when it comes to decision-making, and the lives that you will affect by your choices.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.”

Source : "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone Interview, November 19, 2003.
“Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply”
“We want everything in a hurry because our primary aim must be survival in the short term. Long term thinking has seemed like a luxury in human history because lives were shorter, but with our increased longevity we have to figure out what to DO with all our time, and to pace ourselves to achieve things that we want. Hobbes might have been right when he originally wrote that life is 'nasty, poor, brutish and short', but today we are AWASH with time.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“If you don't like the news go out and make some of your own.”

Source : "Danny Schechter, 'News Dissector' and Human Rights Activist, Dies at 72" by Sam Roberts, www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2015.
“We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.”

Source : Yasmine Galenorn (2011). “Totem Magic: Dance of the Shapeshifter”, p.183, Crossing Press

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