Black Elk Quotes
Of all the created things or beings in the universe, it is the two-legged men alone, who if they purify and humiliate themselves, may become one with - or may know - Wakan-Tanka.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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I just want to do my job.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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Dance of the Sugar Plum Bikey. Yes, that's got a nice ring to it.
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If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.
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All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.
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I feel like everybody has an old flame: if you've had someone you've broken up with and then gotten back together with. Everybody goes through that. It's always a good moment when you've been away from somebody you loved for so long.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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Of all the created things or beings in the universe, it is the two-legged men alone, who if they purify and humiliate themselves, may become one with - or may know - Wakan-Tanka.
