Donella Meadows Quotes
Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I believe the main solution referring to the nuclear issue is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year.
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
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Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.
