Jeff Goodell Quotes
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
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Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
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Oh, If I should die tonightOh baby, though it be far before my timeI won't die blue, sugar yeah'Cause I've known you.
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I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.
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Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
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'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.
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The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
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Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through
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Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
