Walt Whitman Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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Africa has no future.
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There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
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I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
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History has placed a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of this country's leadership, namely the responsibility of moving our country away from the current course of conflict and confrontation... The hope of millions of South Africans is fixed on us. The future of southern Africa depends on us. We dare not waver or fail.
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When faced with economic uncertainty, people don't want freedom. When they can't see their economic future, they want the nanny state.
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The one in the movie is not real, but my Casper tattoo is real, and it is my only one.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
