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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'Why are you always so full of answers?''Because life’s so full of questions.'
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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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Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.
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Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
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I was inbred into the game by my father
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Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
