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“There are 2.5 million ants for each human being, and the dominant, no-questions-asked majority are female.”

Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

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Carbon: The Book of Life

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Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken is an American environmentalist, writer, and entrepreneur. He is known for his profound insights into environmental sustainability and his contributions to the environmental movement. more

“Tallgrass prairies that covered one third of the United States are reduced to less than 4 percent of their range. The shifting baseline syndrome means people see gradual changes only over their lifetime. Unless it is a recent event no one sees a missing wetland. The Earth we inhabit is accepted as normal because we lack a historical perspective.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“The unraveling of our home planet is a mental disorder in which thoughts and feelings are so impaired they have no relationship to external reality. Wild is the opposite. It is when our thoughts, feelings, and actions are exquisitely sensitive to our relationship with the living world and each other.”

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Book:Carbon: The Book of Life

Source: Carbon: The Book of Life

“A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son, badly injured, is rushed to the hospital. In the operating room, the surgeon looks at the boy and says, "I can't operate on this boy. He is my son”

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Book:Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

Source: Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

“She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.”

Love Desire Fire Will Herondale Tessa Gray

Book:Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“The wise warrior avoids the battle.”

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Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“The experimenters computed an “intuition index” to measure accuracy. They found that putting the participants in a good mood before the test by having them think happy thoughts more than doubled accuracy.”

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Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Si se produjese la explosión de una supernova a quinientos años luz de la Tierra, pereceríamos; según Evans: -Pondría fin al asunto -dijo alegremente.”

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Book:UNA MUY BREVE HISTORIA DE CASI TODO

Source: UNA MUY BREVE HISTORIA DE CASI TODO

“A question we hear routinely during trivial or not so trivial conversations is what was first, the chicken or the egg? In this case, after reading the literature I have to ask, what was first, the bird or the dinosaur? Or maybe the bird was always a bird and the dinosaur was always a dinosaur?”

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Book:God and Petroleum

Source: God and Petroleum

“Except for God, perfection doesn’t exist, thus the production and consumption of petroleum, which have contributed to so many advances of humanity, has also brought some problems that are discussed here. This is, of course, true of any other natural resources and also of inventions, which bring benefits to humanity but also some unwelcome situations. But overall, however, the benefits outweigh the problems by a significant margin.”

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Book:God and Petroleum

Source: God and Petroleum

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