Donella Meadows Quotes
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
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I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.
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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.
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Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'
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I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.
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I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
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To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
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Now I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can.
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Karsky: I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?Hugo: No.Karsky: It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death.Hugo: It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
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On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.
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People read way too much into personalities and all that stuff.
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But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
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Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
