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“But nothing in the world would have brought him to reveal, by publicly protesting, that he was becoming one of those who no longer have anything in common with their fellow creatures. Wary, he kept silent about it, like all the rest.”
― Chéri and The End of Chéri
― Chéri and The End of Chéri
“I have heard experienced birders call the Lesser Goldfinch a 'trash bird' because it is so common and numerous. I heard others call a House Sparrow a 'junk' bird, an invasive, like the European Starling. I understand the antipathy. Invasive birds usurp habitat and resources. But I can't help but feel discomfort. The rhetoric is often the same as the racist ones I hear about Chinese people.”
― The Backyard Bird Chronicles
― The Backyard Bird Chronicles
“When you have no future, you vote for the past.”
― Time Shelter
― Time Shelter
“The freedom of a leisurely activity is the freedom from results or outcomes beyond it, not the freedom of rest or recreation.”
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
“The fundamental bedrock of liberty is tolerance,” he said in July 1925. And as if he could darkly anticipate the implications of the Scopes trial not just for Bryan, or Tennessee, or 1925, but for the future of a nation that was said to cherish liberty, he explained, “Tolerance means a willingness to let other people do, think, act and live as we think is not right; the antithesis of this is intolerance and means we demand the right to make others live as we think is right, not as they think is right.” Otherwise, as he had declared, no one was safe.”
― Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
― Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
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