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Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems.
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?
With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.
If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.
France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.
I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.
One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.
Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.
Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.
For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
I couldn't tell wether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.
If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.
He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.
Nothing we read can import new or foreign feelings that we don't, in one form or another, already possess.
After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
'Doctor Who' rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, 'That doesn't make sense.'
To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.
However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.
We are the only authority on what is good for us. Once we see this, we feel an enormous peace and freedom.
Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who've heeded, not hijacked, Islam. Or so says [Wafa] Sultan.