John Muir Quotes
I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
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I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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A lot of times I feel like people stick around in a relationship because they feel a primal need to be with that person for whatever reason.
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Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.
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At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.
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When I first started writing music, it was to express that. I was trying to find God and trying to find meaning in my life. That's what my music was about. It wasn't to entertain.
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I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.
