#ed

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them ↗

— Ernest Gellner

#change #ideas #knowledge #thought #change

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#april #changes #december #maids #may

You believe in Destiny, don't you?" "Yes," said Leah quietly. "Then you have to believe that things happen for a reason, and even if you change something. Destiny will find a way to fulfill her needs." - Jasmine ↗

— Jacquelyn Frank

#predestination #predetermination #change

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#death

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. ↗

— Frank Abagnale

#crime #did #easier #hundreds #i

Upon this crown my pledge I give, To my last breath,I hold this choice, I will your unjust deaths avenge, All here who died without a voice. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#death

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. ↗

— Paul Getty

#always #any #believed #binding #business

Increasingly, we will be faced with a choice: whether to keep the oceans for wild fish or farmed fish. Farming domesticated species in close proximity with wild fish will mean that domesticated fish always win. Nobody in the world of policy appears to be asking what is best for society, wild fish or farmed fish. And what sort of farmed fish, anyway? Were this question to be asked, and answered honestly, we might find that our interests lay in prioritizing wild fish and making their ecosystems more productive by leaving them alone enough of the time. ↗

— Charles Clover

#ecosystem #farmed-fish #fish #ocean #wild-fish

By 2030, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, fish farming will dominate fish supplies. Given how wrong the FAO has been in the past--saying catches were going up when, in fact, they were going down--this statement is worth examining carefully. When you do, you find it to be an observation of previous trends, not a reflection of what could happen or what people might want--in the same way as Red Delicious was once far and away the most popular apple in the United States because it was basically the only apple you could get. The FAO is simply observing that fish farming is the fastest growing form of food production in the world--growing at 9 percent a year and by 12-13 percent in the United States. Nobody is asking us whether we want this. It is just happening. The continued destruction of mangrove swamps in poor countries to provide shrimp for people living in rich countries is simply the market operating in a vacuum untroubled by ethics. It is a reflection of what will go on happening if we do not find ways of exercising any choice in the matter. ↗

— Charles Clover

#ethics #farmed-fish #fish #fish-farming #fishing

Forget it,” I said. “Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he’d still be preferable to listening to the two of you. ↗

— John Zakour

#sci-fi #sci-fi-humour-comedy #life