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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People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.
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My parents were very indiscrete.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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When human glory rises high As human glory can; When though the king is truly great, Still greater is the man.
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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.
