"Weâ€™re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. [But] we should always feel like a hummingbird. I may feel insignificant, but I donâ€™t want to be like the other animals watching the planet go down the drain. Iâ€™ll be a hummingbird, Iâ€™ll do the best I can."

-- Wangari Maathai

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“Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.”
“Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.”
“I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!”
“If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.”
“I've never seen a Lindy Hopper who wasn't smiling. It's a happy dance. It makes you feel good.”
“We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.”
“The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.”

Source : James Gustave Speth (2008). “The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability”, p.1, Yale University Press
“The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.”

Source : Charles Churchill (1779). “The Poetical Works of Cha. Churchill in Three Volumes: With the Life of the Author”, p.105

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