Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.
The question is not 'Can you make a difference?' You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.
For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. . . . Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.
Time, money, etc. . . are human-made constructs. They are not real. They are completely made up.
Every moment brings a choice; every choice has an impact.
I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today. I believe in what I do beyond a shadow of a doubt. I gave my word to this tree and to all the people that my feet would not touch the ground until I had done everything in my power to make the world aware of this problem and to stop the destruction.
On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game.
My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.
I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff.
Writers and reporters need to remind themselves they're not to be judged solely by the number of clicks or eyeballs on a given story, but there is this other value and this other important mission, and the key is balancing the two so that you stay alive long enough, whether you're an individual writer or whether you're a whole news organization, to keep doing what you're doing but that you don't get so driven by that that you forget that what you're supposed to be doing in a higher sense is informing people, is elevating the debate and not lowering it.