John Muir Quotes
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
Quotes to Explore
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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To be international, you have to first be local. ... When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.
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Living through war has helped make me pretty strong.
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The bite of conscience is indecent.
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The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.
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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
