E. F. Schumacher Quotes
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
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In general, you don't want to move your kids when they're teenagers. They're not going to be happy with you.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?
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Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
