"It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously."

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Naomi Oreskes

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Materialism Quotes

“Your capacity to receive is based on your hunger to pursue.”
“I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.”
“Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.”
“Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however much it falls short, to a universalist ideal of freedom.”
“I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.”
“If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry which has been our great achievement, or, by contrast, placed into the unraveling of complex threads of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice.”
“The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.”
“Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.”

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