"Don't you believe people when they tell you that people sought for a sign, and believed in miracles because they were ignorant. They did it because they were wise, filthily, vilely wise—too wise to eat or sleep or put on their boots with patience."
G.K. Chesterton
"It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then."
John Marsden
"Management' of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation."
Bill McKibben
"I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen."
Timothy Leary
"A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?"
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos
"Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it."
Stan Smith
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
Thomas Jefferson
"The brighter the sunlight, the worse it affects them,' said Einstein.'So we got to pay more attention to the weather forecast,' said DogNut. 'Cloudy with a chance of zombies."
"A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me."
Charles Kuralt
"A rainbow looks good because the colours demonstrate restrain. Otherwise it would be an ugly blob."
Arindam Mukherjee
"And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?Her resilience ?Her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? Is that true or is it just a consolation ? A shifting of responsibility? And if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?"
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