Donella Meadows Quotes
Why are they people more likely to listen to people who tell them they can't make changes than they are to people who tell them they can?
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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The difference between H7N9 and H5N1, is that H5N1 kills chickens very rapidly, so it is easy to identify where the infected flocks of chickens are. H7N9 doesn't make the chicken sick, so it has been difficult to pinpoint where the infected chickens are.
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I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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When you rebound the ball we're able to move the ball, and we want to get out and run, try to get guys some easy baskets. We don't want to come out and play a half-court game all the time.
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The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.
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Why are they people more likely to listen to people who tell them they can't make changes than they are to people who tell them they can?
