"The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from chemical contamination, there needs to be a massive outcry--a choir of voices--by the American people demanding change."

-- Lois Gibbs

#Order Quotes #Voice Quotes #People Quotes

“Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that's horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it's nothing. It's just bibble-babble. It's like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.”

Source : Commentary on Sci-Fi Channel's "Sci-Fi Buzz", harlanellison.com.
“The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.”
“Never confuse activity with results.”
“I have a vision for living. It's about elements of style. It's about all the things that I love, that I believe in.”
“You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you don't find many on the loss of friends, relatives, and lovers from death or alienation, though it happens all the time.”
“Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.”
“It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.”
“Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.”

Source : John Sterling (1848). “Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge”, p.168

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