E. F. Schumacher Quotes
A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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To win you've got to stay in the game.
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You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with us, because they are in our hearts and in our memory. The only thing we can depend on is change... Life is just a series of moments -- a string of pearls that make up the necklace of your life and so every once in a while, to complete the circle, you need to end a chapter.
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Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.
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We don't have to live in a world where everyone reacts perfectly the first time around, and if you don't, everything falls apart, and no one speaks to you ever again.
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The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.
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A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.
