John Muir Quotes
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
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It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.
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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
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I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.
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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
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If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely.
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I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.
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I have to prove every week that I'm the best.
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The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.
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'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.
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It would be different if it was someone you didn't like and he was a horrible person, giving it all the time, but he's not like that.
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The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.
