"People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel."

-- Joe Queenan

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.”
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”

Source : Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.165, Oxford University Press
“If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?”
“My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.”

Source : "Roger Moore: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012.
“We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.”
“Today things are better than yesterday.”
“One of the things I didn't like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.”
“It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.”

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