David R. Brower Quotes
Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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I've never been a partier.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
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Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
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Players have an in-season playing weight, and we have to be careful not to stray too far from it when we're not under the watchful eye of the nutritionist. This can be a problem when the food isn't being prepared and regulated by our cooking staff.
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.
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I like to mix British classics, like a great trench, with fun vintage pieces I find in New York. L.A. style is often very relaxed and comfortable, and I appreciate that effortless feel.
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In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.
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I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
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Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.
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It was impossible to see warfare as anything other than what Morgenes had once termed it: a kind of hell on earth that impatient mankind had arranged so it would not have to wait for the afterlife.
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People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
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Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.
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The people hung upon His words – that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal.
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I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them.
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Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.
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Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.
