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.
Samantha Power
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
Otto Schily
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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.
Flannery O'Connor
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Wallace Stevens
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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.
Larry Bird
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
Carlene Carter
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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.
Calvin Klein
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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.
Harry A. Blackmun
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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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.
Candy Crowley
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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.
Walter Gropius
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
Lasse Hallstrom
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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.
Garry Disher
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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.
Maika Monroe
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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?'
Hari Kondabolu
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
Manoj Bhargava
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
Bebe Rexha
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.
Daniel Radcliffe
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Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
Ingrid Newkirk
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I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.
Vandana Shiva
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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.
E. F. Schumacher