"The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not sown, wasting what he thought would last forever. New railroads were opening new territory. The exploiters were pushing farther and farther into the wilderness. The man who could get his hands on the biggest slice of natural resources was the best citizen. Wealth and virtue were supposed to trot in double harness."

Source : Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.23, Island Press

Gifford Pinchot

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“In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.”
“I love challenges and hurdles because they are opportunities.”
“They can only kill us once.”
“My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.”
“I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.”
“One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.”

Source : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.20, Cambridge University Press
“This summer I have discovered something totally useless.”

Source : "The Hunt for the Higgs Boson". Science Scotland, issue no. 3, www.sciencescotland.org. Winter 2004.

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