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We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure. ↗

— Peter Yarrow

#any #before #careful #deliberation #example

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#choices #decisions #life-and-living #beauty

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#landscape #nature #nature-s-beauty #beauty

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#big difference #completely #degree #detail #difference

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#around #best #big #body #crude

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#before #computers #connect #equally #lines

We're just welcoming people to our city. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

#just #our #people #welcoming

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #completeness #course #desire #even

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#communicated #communication #experiences #other #poetry

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#average #build #democracies #democracy #democratic