"Kindness is always fashionable."

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Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.98, Litres

Amelia Barr

#Thank You Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Philanthropy Quotes

“Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.”
“And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as they admit that climate change is real, they will lose the central ideological battle of our timeâ€”whether we need to plan and manage our societies to reflect our goals and values, or whether that task can be left to the magic of the market.”
“To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.”
“This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A President who's not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.”
“Fifty years ago, the way that we consumed food was revolutionized. We began eating processed foods, and it seemed amazing. And then we woke up many decades later, and we realized that food was engineered to make us fat. And I think that such companies as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are doing the same thing with the stuff that we ingest through our brains. They're attempting to addict us, and they're addicting us on the basis of data.”

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“I love food, so exercise is important for me.”
“Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds.”
“We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it . . . and I'd hate to see it go.”

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