Jennifer A. Nielsen Quotes
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I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.
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We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.
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From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
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Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.
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I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.
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I can still sing. If you are dead, you can't sing.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber.
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An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
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Donald Trump is a staunch believer in the Second Amendment.
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I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple...
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Death is nature’s way of saying, Your table is ready.
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... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
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The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.
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Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.
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They would randomly assign patients to either ECMO or the conventional treatment until a prespecified number of deaths was observed in one of the groups. Then they would switch all the patients in the study to the more effective treatment of the two.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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The saddest thing is there won't be anyone to miss us when we're gone.
