#liza

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#context #generalization #generalize #keep #repeating

The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#back #borne #civilization #documented #evidence

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#figure #good #got #how #human

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it. ↗

— William Shatner

#because #does #environment #front #his

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#any #being #man #opinion #rational

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#glorious #great #harder #more #self-realization

Both the human immune system and the plant immune system are fundamentally interdependent on the quality and fertility of the soil. Our immune system, and even our physical structure, are a reflection of the foods we have eaten from either toxic and nutrient depleted soils, or wonderfully fertile soils. ↗

— Eryn Paige

#nutrition #sea-agriculture #sea-salt-fertilization #soil #wellness

I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations. ↗

— Huston Smith

#big #big bang #civilizations #eight #god

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#drowning #human #human civilization #lies #sea