"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."

-- Alexander Haig

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“The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.”
“Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.”

Source : Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.131, Simon and Schuster
“There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (1991). “Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA
“pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues ...”
“I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.”
“Finnish forests: Let us remind the satellite pictures of the 1970's winter in which the old forest appeared black and young forest and cut downs white. Already then the Finnish borders were like drawn on the map: White Finland between black Karelian and black Sweden. Finnish Forest Research Institute hicced up some time and then decided that the pictures are fake. . .”

Source : "Can Life Prevail?". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.
“Look in the mirror and tell yourself how wonderful you are.”
“I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com

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