Diedrichsen Elementary Quotes & Sayings

To hear, one must be silent. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It's a pity we're still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene - human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth - is already an undeniable reality. — Paul J. Crutzen

But neither will anyone ask us whether we will it or do not will it when the spiritual strength of the West fails and the West starts to come apart at the seams, when this moribund pseudocivilization collapses into itself, pulling all forces into confusion and allowing them to suffocate in madness.
Whether such a thing occurs or does not occur, this depends solely on whether we as a historical-spiritual Volk will ourselves, still and again, or whether we will ourselves no longer. Each individual has a part in deciding this, even if, and precisely if, he seeks to evade this decision.
But it is our will that our Volk fulfill its historical mission. — Martin Heidegger

Without clean water, we cannot experience optimum health, but by practically every public health standard issued during the past 50 years, humans have not experienced optimum health. One of the reasons for this fact is simple: the Earth's water is in crisis. — Elson M. Haas

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. — Phyllis McGinley

pay gap could be less about market realities than the fact that the corporation has yet to be democratized. — Ron Davison

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble. — Boris Becker

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will. — Mahatma Gandhi

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld