Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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The comparison here implied between the actions of one of the higher animals and of one so low in the scale as an earth-worm, may appear far-fetched; for we thus attribute to the worm attention and some mental power, nevertheless I can see no reason to doubt the justice of the comparison.
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[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras.
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Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.
