E. F. Schumacher Quotes
Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
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If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.
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As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
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I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
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Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
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Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.
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Man-every man-is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.
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Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don’t have to obey their own laws.
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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.
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Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon.
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I have not seen 'Legally Blonde.' I must be in the small, ever-dwindling minority on that one.
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We expect you are, honest Shaun, we agreed, but from franking machines, limricked, that in the end it may well turn out, we hear to be you, our belated, who will bear these open letter. Speak to us of Emailia. (410.20-23)
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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
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Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
