Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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There is only one me.
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If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. He doesn't force anything on you, which really makes things easier.
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I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
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My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
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A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
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I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.
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My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.
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I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
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Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
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Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.
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When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.
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The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.
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My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
