"Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him."

-- James Lane Allen

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“Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to it. In order to bring crisis into your work you have to bring it to a state of expectancy. In other words you have to leave your work in the state of mind of being a question.”
“Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.”

Source : ROBERT ARDREY (1966). “THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE”
“â€Ž"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."”
“...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley.”
“I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.”
“How we [Americans] move [on climate] will determine the international direction. To lead, we must act.”

Source : "Impressions from National Academies Climate Summit" by Bill Chameides, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.
“Be who you are, nothing more... nothing less.”

Source : Song: Hey Now Now, Album: Yell Fire!, 2006
“The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.”

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