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Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment. (William F. Buckley)
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. View quote
Mitch Albom
One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made. That this is still the morning of creation. That mountains, long conceived, are now being born, brought to light by the glaciers, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes. View quote
John Muir
Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed. View quote
John Muir
I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day. View quote
John Muir
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged. View quote
John Muir
The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it. View quote
Bayazid Bastami
And yet, people still turn to Jesus. You will notice though that the kind of people who turn to Jesus tend to be the sort of people who haven't done that well with everybody else. View quote
Dylan Moran
Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity. View quote
George Monbiot
It's not dark yet But it's getting there. View quote
Bob Dylan
Opportunities may come along for you to convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. (Bob Dylan)
Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get "down the drain", into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that. View quote
Richard Feynman
May she be granted beauty and yet not; Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe; The heart-revealing intimacy; That chooses right, and never find a friend. View quote
William Butler Yeats
How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, "I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place." Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened. View quote
Duke Ellington
I sit beside my lonely fire And pray for wisdom yet: For calmness to remember Or courage to forget. View quote
Charles Hamilton Aide
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. View quote
Ray Bradbury
You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it. View quote
Ray Bradbury
And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood. View quote
Knut Hamsun
The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite. View quote
Werner Heisenberg
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. (Virginia Woolf)
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close. View quote
Carl Sagan
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own. View quote
Heraclitus
So weak thou art that fools thy power despise And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise. View quote
Jonathan Swift
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. View quote
Wole Soyinka