"Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is as yet no social stigma in the possession of a gullied farm, a wrecked forest, or a polluted stream, provided the dividends suffice to send the youngsters to college. Whatever ails the land, the government will fix it."

-- Aldo Leopold

#Children Quotes #College Quotes #Government Quotes

“Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle?”

Source : Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.5, Verso
“There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.”
“When you fall for the one that owns you, sheâ€™ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.”
“If Peteâ€™s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if heâ€™s a boy, my son will defeat him.”
“All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.”
“Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 207, 1895.
“We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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