"In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation."

-- Sigurd F. Olson

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“And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the issues of teen suicide, bullying, and the overall anti-homosexual sentiment that exist within hip hop culture. I felt so strongly about these issues and this song that I had to do a video that would command some attention, even if it makes some viewers uncomfortable. Even if it came at the cost of my own comfort.”

Source : "Murs’ ‘Animal Style’ Video: Rapper Supports Gay Rights, Kisses A Man In New Clip" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2012.
“If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.”
“Tough times make tough people.”
“Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.”
“It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each time we open a book to read it again; we can never really experience it in the same way, just as we can never step into the same stream twice.”
“You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.”
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
“Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.”

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