Donella Meadows Quotes
Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.
Donella Meadows
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore
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As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.
Carl Hagelin
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J. G. Ballard
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
Barry Unsworth
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
Ingmar Bergman
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
Wang Jianlin
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
Bear Grylls
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
Taron Egerton
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
Ted Nelson
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Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
Joan Collins
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The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear.
Jessica Valenti
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I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
William Shakespeare
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Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.
Mother Teresa
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Before I became a SEAL, I'd done humanitarian work around the world - with refugee families in Bosnia, with unaccompanied children in Rwanda, with kids who lost limbs to land mines in Cambodia.
Eric Greitens
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Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.
Donella Meadows
