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Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#both #counts #good #good and bad #religion

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean. ↗

— Frances Burney

#continually #given #half #mean #opinion

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them. ↗

— Brooke Burns

#connect #fighting #host #impartial #personalities

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles. ↗

— Edward Burns

#cool #cool thing #different #different personalities #different styles

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#eyes #inspirational #looking #personality #beauty

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves. ↗

— John Burns

#fallen #hand #help #helping #helping hand

Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#war #beauty

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#place #sadness #sentimentality

Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#isadora-duncan #spirituality #women #art