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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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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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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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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You've made my life so glamorous,You can't blame me for feeling amorous.'S wonderful, 's marvellousThat you should care for me.
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'She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.'
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Charles went towards the table, but he had no lady-like powers of filling four sheets with nothing, and the letter was soon sealed.
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I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.
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When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.
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When a show has been on for so long, you lose fans, you gain fans. I remember this from 'Saturday Night Live.'
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Was it a vision, or a waking dream?Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?
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The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
