People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
AGNES REPPLIERThe real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting – it’s exciting to be in that dialogue.
BILL AYERS -
Be as kind to yourself as you are to others.
HANNA SHEBAR -
I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide.
BILL DUKE -
Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
MIKE TYSON -
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE -
Almost everybody’s happy to be a fool for love.
JACK NICHOLSON -
Maniacal suicide. -This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.
EMILE DURKHEIM -
It depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can’t be real. It ought to be but it isn’t. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn’t say it.
ADA LEVERSON -
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
WILLIAM GOLDING -
Life’s philosophy, hm… I just say, ‘Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.’
BAM MARGERA -
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY -
Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
BARBARA SMITH -
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.
ADORA SVITAK -
Listeners are kind of ambushed… if a poem just happens to be said when they’re listening to the radio. The listener doesn’t have time to deploy what I call their ‘poetry deflector shields’ that were installed in high school – there’s little time to resist the poem.
BILLY COLLINS