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"A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions"
"Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately."
"It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use."
"This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got."
"The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!"
"The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both."
"Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds."
"For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough."
"The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."
"The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must."
"In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be."
"We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless."
"Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world."
"It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it."
"The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it."
"We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)"
"Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great."
"Here was something that I did all the time, and thought nothing of it, and it turns out the rest of the world thinks it's completely reprehensible. That's when I knew I needed to change, so I started making rules. The first one was; Don't mess with animals."
"Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't."
"It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with that. It's literally a haunting tune."
