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"I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time."

"Even if the climate change is not real, its funds are real."

"Surround yourself with those conducive to you being your highest self."

"A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy."

"Why we don't feel sorry for killing thousands of mosquitoes every day? Are they useless or too many? We humans must realize it before it is too late."

"Plant life is like the canary in the cage. When it starts to die off, we know we have problems. To ignore plant die off would be like the human race committing suicide. Human extinction would surely follow."

"It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions."

"Nature is in the process of shutting down corrupt corporations and their government minions."

"There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless."
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"For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give 'significant form' to the chaos of experience?"


"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."


"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."


"Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory."


"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers."


"But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts."


"Religion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man."
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