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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."

Aldous Huxley

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"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."

Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)"

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@coluber2001,

"When I hear about someone else's pain, I feel pain too. I feel pain for everything - for people and animals."
Dmitri Shostakovich, "Testimony: The Memoirs"

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@coluber2001,

"We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life."

Edward O. Wilson, "The Social Conquest of Earth"

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"In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come."
Edward O. Wilson

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@coluber2001,

"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."
T.S. Eliot

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@coluber2001,

"Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before 10 or 20 thousand years ago, life hit a peak of diversity. Then we appeared. We are the great meteorite."

Edward O. Wilson

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"Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life."

Edward O. Wilson, "Biophilia"

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@coluber2001,

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
Edward O. Wilson

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@coluber2001,

"Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!"

Gregory Corso, "An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters"

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@coluber2001,

"I believe that all children should be surrounded by books and animals."
Gerald Durrell

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@coluber2001,

"I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."

Ludwig van Beethoven

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@coluber2001,

"He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it."

George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"

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You cry because Rome was burned down? Did God ever promise that the world would be eternal? The walls of Carthage fell, the fire of Baal died out, and the warriors of Massinissa and the ramparts of Citra disappeared in their turn, as the sand flows. That you knew, but you thought Rome would not fall. Was not Rome built by men like you? Since when do you think that men have the power to build eternal things? Man builds on sand. If you want to grasp what he has built, you are only grasping the wind.

-- St Augustine

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Sir Henry Taylor

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

Sir Henry Taylor

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

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Art--the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
James Thurber

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@edgarblythe,

"Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children."

Edward O. Wilson, "The Meaning of Human Existence"

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Tolstoy

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"I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction."

John Steinbeck, "Travels with Charley: In Search of America"

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