"Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity."

-- David W. Orr

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“You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
“Every time I see the bumper sticker that says â€œWe think weâ€™re humans having spiritual experiences, but weâ€™re really spirits having human experiences,â€ I (a) think itâ€™s true and (b) want to ram the car.”
“My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.”
“Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.”
“The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.”
“It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.”
“Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.”

Source : "Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product" by Walter A. Shewhart, (p. 8), 1931.
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”

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