"The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view - the idea that we can control the forces of nature, that we can have short-term expedient gains without paying for them, that there are no limits to exploitation of the environment, that we can produce and consume faster than nature's ability to replenish."

-- Jeremy Rifkin

#Our World Quotes #Views Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
“I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.”
“I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.”
“If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.”

Source : Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.149, One World
“God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil.”
“I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?”

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