Smallholder Groundnut Quotes & Sayings

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us? — Alexander Pope

In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about. — Loren Eiseley

My suspension was a long-planned move ... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics. — Traian Basescu

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

This was how she saw the world. It could take from her in a moment everything she loved. It could deny her anything she wanted. The world had granted me almost my every wish, and none more precious to me than this one. The world had granted her only this. — Catherine M. Wilson

Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation. — Michael Lerner

not admit this. For him and his Chancery Court, a major trial was a nasty divorce — John Grisham