Ellsworth Huntington Quotes
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
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I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Pave your own path and be fearless.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
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When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
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A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
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Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
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People like to talk about their hometowns and their travels, and the more places you've been, the more likely you'll be able to make a connection that can bring new business leads or career opportunities.
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If you don't stand up to your fears, have bravery, loyalty, and you don't have friends, you'll never win. You'll never feel better about yourself.
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Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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I acquired quite a lot of technical skill and got quite a long way with my painting, but I never felt I was doing what New Zealand was about with my paint.
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Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.
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As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
