"The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean â€” once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help."

-- Jared Diamond

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“People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.”
“I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't get to do. And then I started writing things down on little scraps of paper and I would hide them. I would write the year on them and then I would stuff them in a drawer somewhere. But I didn't start to really read until about eight. I'm dyslexic, so it took a long time.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.”
“Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.”
“When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.”

Source : "Luke Evans Exclusive Interview TAMARA DREWE; Plus Updates on Tarsem’s IMMORTALS, THE THREE MUSKETEERS and VIVALDI". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 7, 2010.
“You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.”
“When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.”
“No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.”

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