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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Kindness to neighbors and respect for the land—nurturing healthy soil, wisely managing water, caring for pollinators—will be essential in a crisis and in whatever society survives it.”
— Jonathan Franzen, What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped?
Tagged: Climate Apocalypse
“Someone gonna sell the pussy, someone gonna buy the pussy. We're just landing the cut, man.”
— Black Frankie, The Deuce, Season 1: What Kind of Bad
Tagged: prostitution
“Daddies, husbands, and pimps they're all the same.They love you for who you are until you try to be someone else. At least pimps are up front about it.”
— Darlene, The Deuce, Season 1: What Kind of Bad
Tagged: Pimps, Control Over Human Beings, Daddy Issues
“Leaders create the conditions where people choose new actions. The choices are voluntary. They’re made by people who see a new landscape, new opportunities and new options. You can’t make people change. But you can create an environment where they choose to.”
— Seth Godin, Leadership
Tagged: Leadership, leading
“Growth means to lie open to the span of the heavens and, at the same time, to have roots in the dark earth; that everything real and true only prospers if mankind fulfills at the same time the two conditions of being ready for the demands of the highest heaven and of being safe in the shelter of the fruitful earth.”
— Martin Heidegger, Country Lane
Tagged: Idealism
“A young person who is super-engaged is attracted to FADER because we help create culture, we’re not just covering things that happen, and I think that mindset is very appealing to brands.”
— Andy Cohn, 20 Years Later, The FADER Stays True to Its Mission- Folio:
Tagged: Advertising, Media Cliff Notes
“We still live within the propaganda of human progress and generational improvement.”
— David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth
Tagged: Progress, Narrative of History
“Plastic panic has a strange relationship to climate change, in that it seems to draw on premonitions about the degradation of the planet while focusing on something that has very little to do with global warming.”
— David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth
Tagged: Plastic panic
“I is now estimated that New York City will suffer “500-year” floods once every twenty-five years.”
— David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth
Tagged: Predictions
“A paradise dreamscape erected in a barren desert, L.A. has always been an impossible city, as Mike Davis has so brilliantly written.”
— David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth
Tagged: Los Angeles, Impossible City