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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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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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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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
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To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.
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I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.
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I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
