"People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today."

-- Betty White

#Zoos Quotes #People Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.”
“These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.”
“I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers of being totally frazzled by September to make me realize that this was a false guilt. I'm much more use to family and friends when I'm not physically and spiritually depleted than when I spend my energies as though they were unlimited. They are not. The time at the typewriter and the time at the brook refresh me and put me into a more workable perspective.”
“If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.”
“It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds”
“Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is trying to think about us - something we want more than praise?”

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
“There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.”
“Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis.”

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