Bill Mollison Quotes

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

Bill Mollison

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Things
  • Test
  • Certainty

• I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Art
  • Crazy
  • Doors

• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Trying
  • True
  • Hand

• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think
  • Television
  • Visual

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Time
  • Game
  • Football

• The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Money
  • Why
  • Decision

• The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Children
  • Race
  • Possesses

• It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Today
  • Future
  • Past

• What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Criticism
  • Modern

• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Like
  • Winter
  • Snow

• If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Leadership

• I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Hard
  • Profound
  • Novel

• What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Quality

• I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Focus
  • Media
  • Gossip

• Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Important
  • Death

• Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• ‘Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.’

  

  Christopher Paolini
  • Wish
  • Fate

• I think everybody thinks about death, but I’m not afraid of it. That’s one thing about this society – why is death a taboo? When I die I know I’m going back to the earth, I have no illusions about that, I don’t believe in an afterlife – it’s a natural, biological and chemical process to disintegrate back into the earth. If I die and people want to come to a small gathering to mark my life, people can dress and behave however they want. They can play table tennis on my coffin if they want, I’m just a vessel that’s going back to the earth. It’s the cycle of life.

  

  Barney Greenway Benediction
  • Life
  • Death
  • Society

• I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Death
  • Wish
  • Understand