Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.


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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn...
O. HENRY
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of peopl...
O. HENRY
When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY
By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. HENRY
It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. HENRY
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY
I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my lif...
O. HENRY
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owner...
O. HENRY
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY
I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, ...
STEVE-O
What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New...
O. HENRY
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRY
It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's w...
O. HENRY
I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist.
STEVE-O
Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, st...
STEVE-O
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words wh...
O. HENRY
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY
All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the soci...
O. HENRY
There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blur...
STEVE-O
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citiz...
O. HENRY
Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appe...
STEVE-O
I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some poin...
STEVE-O
The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling ...
O. HENRY
The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about...
STEVE-O
I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateb...
STEVE-O
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owne...
O. HENRY
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. HENRY
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRY