"As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world."

-- Pearl S. Buck

#Country Quotes #New York Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.”

Source : Charles Bowden (1977). “Killing the Hidden Waters”, p.7, University of Texas Press
“What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction, but science fact? What if they currently exist on the planet, but are suppressed from the masses?”
“I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.”
“I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.”
“When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.”
“Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity-advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.”

Source : Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.88, Beacon Press
“The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.”
“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.”

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