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Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, ‘I am not the kind of person I want to be.’ It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don’t realize about an ecosystem is that it’s a system.A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.(..)has order,a flowing from point to point.If something dams that flow,order collapses.The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late.That’s why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

But wisdom tempers love, doesn’t it? And it puts a new shape on hate.

Worry saps the strength.

You can wait just so long. Then the dreariness of the waiting overcomes you.

One bargains with equals or near equals!

Let him bring a false accusation against me and have it exposed. I shall stand there, promethean, saying: “Behold me, I am wronged.” Then let him bring any other accusation against me, even a true one. The Great Houses will not believe a second attack from an accuser once proved wrong.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.