"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us."

-- Aldo Leopold

#Land Quotes #Abuse Quotes #Commodity Quotes

“There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theatres to recall the sensation of rain.”
“I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam.”
“I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.”

Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.
“Forgiveness indeed heals memories”
“It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.”
“We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.”

Source : Rosario Castellanos, Maureen Ahern (1988). “A Rosario Castellanos Reader”, p.258, University of Texas Press
“The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to Godâ€™s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.”
“Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.”

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