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Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental, or… — Fritjof Capra
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of… — Catharine MacKinnon
There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the… — August Kleinzahler
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike,… — Lord Acton
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a… — Michael Shermer
I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to… — W G Sebald
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. — James F. Cooper
When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well,… — Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are… — Nick Cave
God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all… — Jacobus Arminius
Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social… — Joseph Roth
I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so… — Claude Monet
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful… — Yehudi Menuhin
The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form… — Thomas Nagel
But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that… — Utah Phillips
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have… — Tom Glavine
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for… — Arthur Cayley
Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the missile strikes its… — Unknown Author
A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say. — Carly Simon
Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented, — Julian Assange
Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For women… — Sheila Jeffreys
If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then… — Francisco Varela
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it. — Michael Behe
I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little… — Tracy Chapman

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