"Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner."

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E. O. Wilson

#Burning Quotes #Dinner Quotes #Painting Quotes

“No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.”
“We must motivate ourselves to do our very best, and by our example lead others to do their best as well.”
“Being oppressed means the absence of choices”
“I didn't want to call and schedule shows or call and make people listen to my music. Luckily, my friends and family really stayed on me and made me put myself out there.”
“When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.”
“When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that,”
“Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.”

Source : Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.111
“What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.”

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