"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

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Source : Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

Marya Mannes

#Revenge Quotes #Abuse Quotes #Earth Quotes

“I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.”
“I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.”
“The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Jerusalem”, p.62, Library of Alexandria
“With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.”
“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”
“The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.”
“At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.”
“You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.”

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