Freya Stark Quotes
I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.
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He liked the vast openness of sky and prairie, and found loneliness a pleasure with so immense a domain to be alone in.
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I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about.
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The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.
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I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
