"Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space."

-- Margaret Mead

#Integrity Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Communication Quotes

“I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge...”
“It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New York, that's when I'm writing most of the stuff.”
“Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.”
“What you see is what you see.”

Source : Stephanie Rosenthal, Ad Reinhardt, Haus der Kunst München, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella (2006). “Black paintings”
“Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.”

Source : "Do writers need paper?" by Tom Chatfield, www.prospectmagazine.co.uk. October 20, 2010.
“My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.”
“The cognitive structure does not generate consciousness; it simply reflects it; and in the process limits and embellishes it. In a fundamental sense, consciousness is the source of our awareness. In other words, consciousness is not merely awareness as manifest in different forms but it is also what makes awareness possible.”
“All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.”

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