Ina May Gaskin Quotes
Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.
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People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.
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Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.
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Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world. And our guess is so obviously correct that other guesses seem, at best, willful ignorance—at worst, an attack.
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Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.
