"So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life."

-- Mary Oliver

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“In my view, nobody is really effective in tackling those organized crime networks that are making connections from Africa to Asia to fund and facilitate the poaching of massive volumes of ivory, and then selling it on the Asian market. Very few people have tried globally to tackle that serious organized crime threat that is also linked to militia groups. That needs to change. You need to bring the full weight of government attention to dealing with that.”

Source : "Crawford Allen. Senior Director. Traffic. World Wildlife Fund". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“For me, it's really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this world with a manual about how to get it all right. We are ultimately a product of our biology and environment. Consequently, I choose to be compassionate with others when I consider how much painful emotional baggage we are biologically programmed to carry around. I recognize that mistakes will be made, but this does not mean that I need to either victimize myself or take your actions and mistakes personally. Your stuff is your stuff, and my stuff is my stuff.”

Source : Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.156, Penguin
“Don't you think almost anything can be funny? Almostï»¿ anything.”
“Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.”
“THE DEMOLITION OF A TEMPLE IS POSSIBLE AT ANY TIME, as it cannot walk away from its place.”

Source : "Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud". Book by Arun Shourie, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.
“One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.”
“People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.”
“When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?”

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