"I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams."

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David R. Brower

#Beautiful Quotes #People Quotes #Atoms Quotes

“It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.”
“Sorrow does not take away, but adds to the Christian's joy.”
“To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.196, Spiegel & Grau
“When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.”
“The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another.”
“That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.”
“Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own perceptions. I wanted instead to create situations in which I allowed others' perceptions to surface with my own.”
“The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.”

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