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“Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.”

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Sylvia Earle, born on August 30, 1935, is a renowned marine explorer. She is known for her in-depth research on marine ecosystems and her advocacy for ocean conservation. more

“Throughout all of human history we have consumed the natural world. All creatures do. Birds do. Fish do. Earthworms do. We consume the natural world as a source of our survival. But no creature has ever consumed at the scale that humans have, and now there are seven billion of us. I think the good news is that a large percentage of those seven billion minds can work to make better decisions.”

Thinking World Mind Natural Decision Survival Bird Seven Natural World

Author:Sylvia Earle

“I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly, how to move their limbs a certain way. But to actually explain how one performs comedy or drama or tragedy isn't the same as the movements one makes.”

People Thinking Moving Teach Comedy Drama Tragedy Breathe

Author:Judi Dench

“If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.”

Film

Author:Maggie Smith

“Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.”

Book Helping Forget Teacher Librarian

Author:Beverly Cleary

“We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolised by state and media institutions, ways in which fear is actually promoted and distributed as a way of bolstering the need for greater security and militarisation.”

Security Track

Author:Judith Butler

“It is clear that whatever language of democracy Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.”

Language Interest Democracy Aim

Author:Judith Butler

“Journalism schools are good to get a job, but I don't know what else they are good for. I don't like the word "journalism" to begin with. It's news reporting, and that consists of using your two feet. The only lesson, then, that you could give people is how to climb stairs, because there are no stories on the first floor.”

People Giving School Journalism

Author:Jimmy Breslin

“Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just pose and act as if they know and walk through life and get away with it.”

Get Away Nobody Knows Incompetence

Author:Jimmy Breslin

“I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to put words together that might reach the ears of the people of the city who vote.”

People Thinking Together Artist Ability Vote Very Good

Author:Jimmy Breslin

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