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“Scientific research, [my mother] always said, is a comforting field from the moral point of view for the pleasure of discovery, even if it has little practical importance, for the sentiment that all new knowledge is definitively acquired
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“The oaten heaviness of the air, the thick-porridge density of it, the way its odor of dryness and limpness sank down among fresher scents of green and dew and lay there, immobile as a dead thing.”
― One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
― One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
“Canning and Preserving without Sugar, by Norma MacRae”
― Canning for a New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry
― Canning for a New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry
“He’s the kind of person that would inspire crazy people.”
― Rage
― Rage
“Humility will allow you to master what you need to learn, and to be fully present when the moment comes to use what you have mastered.”
― A Subtle Agency
― A Subtle Agency
“We need to rediscover a sacred truth that neither conflicts with reason nor oppresses the individual and then to make that understanding the basis of a spiritualized politics. In other words, we need a nonsacerdotal, nonsectarian, nontheological, nontribal religious worldview that is compatible with science and that provides personal orientation, moral guidance, and a framework for public order without imposing dogmas that must be believed or priests who must be obeyed.47 The eventual outcome might be a kind of Confucianism, Taoism, or Stoicism for the postmechanical age.”
― Plato's Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology
― Plato's Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology
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