"Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world."

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Source : "Book World: 'The Bridge at the Edge of the World'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2008.

James Gustave Speth

#Toxic Quotes #Connections Quotes #World Quotes

“Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.”
“The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.”

Source : Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
“I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.”
“Dr. Lecter would have more sustenance on the spacecraft from Alien because there are more people to eat. I think he'd get hungry after a while in the Overlook - I can't imagine him eating canned food.”
“If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an educational disgrace. It is debauching the whole idea of a university, and I would strongly encourage any members of Liberty University who may be here... to leave and go to a proper university.”

Source : Source: www.smh.com.au
“With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.”
“Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.”

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