David R. Brower Quotes
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
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I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
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Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.
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I deeply believe that men and women need each other.
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The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
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"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."
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Literary theories will not make a writer write.
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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
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Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.
