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.

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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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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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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.
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I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.
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When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.
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I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I feel that there is quite a lot distance there and have played a little bit far away from myself.
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If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.
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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.