“As a soldier, I would hang him. As a politician, knowing him my enemy, I need him near me.”
“For a young lord to become the leader of such a nation as this one, he has to become its oldest Lord.”
“Children care nothing for the glory of centuries past when they laugh and run free over the hills.”
“And I had a makings of a plan. It had no form nor details, and it would be, when finished, a perilous, hopeless plan, for it depended on a woman.”
“gods and luck are fickle friends at best.”
“Never let them take what you're not willing to give.”
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
“Ensuring that our home planet is healthy and life sustaining is an overwhelming priority that undercuts all other human activities. The ship must first float.
Our failure to grasp these fundamental tenants of existence will be our undoing. And one thing is for certain. No calvary is going to come charging to our rescue. We are going to have to rescue ourselves or die trying.
Workable solutions are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. The real issue is our elementary accord with Earth and the plant and animal kingdoms has to be revitalized and re-understood.
The burning question is, How?”
“Аз оглеждам свободата. Индустриалните постройки в предградията, вилите в редица с перфектни покриви, пътните знаци без дупки от куршуми.”
“A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”
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