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last updated: November 28, 2023

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
-- E. O. Wilson

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Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?
-- George Monbiot

Source : "Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?
-- Jeremy Rifkin

Source : Jeremy Rifkin (2010). “The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis”, p.616, Polity

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“I am always a great fan of keeping things on an eye level for comedy because it plays better.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.”
“Research is appreciation.”
“Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience is happening to you, while it is imposed on you, it is not your dream. When discipline is administered externally, the participant is dependent on the administrator of the discipline. When discipline is administered internally, the athlete becomes a victim of the structure of the discipline. Either way, only the discipline, not the dream, is being pursued.”
“So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I'll say, 'That's right, keep the same haircut for ten years.' How fun is that?”
“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”
“Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.”

Source : Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books
“Conservative values aren't really reflected in the radical values of the NRA. And the other idea was that the NRA is not what you think it is: It's an evolving, ever-changing organization, and it has not always been this radical, right-wing arm of the Republican Party, and that the history of the NRA is in fact really interesting.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who hated their religion. The reason why they use the name Israel, the Star of David, hijacking, stealing the identity of Judaism and the Jewish people is in order to gain a legitimacy for their existence that should lead people to say, 'oh, it is God given to them' and that they should use fear and intimidate people from speaking out against their actions because they will call those that do anti Semitic; it couldn't be anything further from the Truth.”
“If someone else made 'Up in the Air' or 'Thank You For Smoking' or 'Juno,' I would have wanted to rip their head off. I need that same sort of passion for every project I take on.”