"And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as they admit that climate change is real, they will lose the central ideological battle of our timeâ€”whether we need to plan and manage our societies to reflect our goals and values, or whether that task can be left to the magic of the market."

-- Naomi Klein

#Real Quotes #Goal Quotes #Magic Quotes

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
“It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.”
“Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.”
“What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.”

Source : Jay Michaelson (2013). “Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment”, p.77, North Atlantic Books
“We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.”
“With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.”
“I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (1965). “The novels of Dashiell Hammett”
“Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.”

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