By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.

Robert Sapolsky

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

David Suzuki

Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

J.K. Rowling

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

Susan Sontag

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Blaise Pascal

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Campbell. Thomas

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

Edward Dahlberg

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

Theodore Sturgeon

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

Margaret Mitchell

striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.

Marcus Aurelius

But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.

Adin Ballou