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“It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!”

Years I Can Important Years Ago Plant Tribes Processed Food

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.”

Years Important Fighting Pleasure Poor Mines Years Ago Breaths Killing Fishes I Realized Passing Passings Fishing

Author:Paul McCartney

“There's always going to be the cooler-clubbers who are going to harvest a lot of fish, but I think the hard-core bass fishermen release just about everything they catch these days. Years ago, I think people were willing to release smaller fish, but now I think they're willing to release them all, and that's the important part.”

People Thinking Years Important Hard Willing Years Ago Fishes Core Release These Days Harvest Bass Fisherman Hard Core

Author:Philip K. Chapman

“My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.”

Source: Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution

“The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be important if we have the energy and the inclination to challenge it, to go out and engage with its peculiarities, with the things that we do not understand. The real danger is the tendency to retreat into the obvious, the tendency to be frightened by the richness of the world and to clutch what we always have understood.”

Ifs World Years Important Different Real Reality Today Energy Challenges Danger Understood Hundred Years Ago Obvious Tendencies Frightened Retreat Inclination Richness Clutch

Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir

Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir

“Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments.”

Source: Collected Papers: Italy 1921-1938

“In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.”

“We handed the most important belongings of our people - the railroads and the banks - to aliens who 2000 years ago had turned the temple into a house of usury. Back then there was a man who had the bravery to drive out these scoundrels with a whip! If today a national socialist is seen with such a temple-whip, he's thrown into jail.”

People Ifs Men Years Important Today House Years Ago Bravery Aliens Thrown Temples Belonging Jail Socialist Whips Railroads Scoundrels Usury

Author:Julius Streicher