E. F. Schumacher Quotes
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
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Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'
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I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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I have no message.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.
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I think the fact that father is running now as opposed to in 2012 where he didn't that he's had enough faith in myself and my siblings to be able to run the company.We've got tens of thousands of people that are under his direct employ. Those people, he wouldn't leave a company and leave those people and their lives and everything they've put into it at risk if he didn't think there was competent leadership to take over after him.
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There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.
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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
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The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.
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Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
