Eric Johnston Quotes
The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
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The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
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Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
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People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.
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...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
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The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change.
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Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.
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I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.
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The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
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Nutrition doesn't have to be complicated. It goes back to the lessons you learned as a kid. Start with a real breakfast; don't ever skip that. If you're waking up early for a run, make sure you drink at least a glass of water and put something healthy into your stomach before you go out the door.
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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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We are trying to find out if we can use the worms or their products to lesson the impact of allergies
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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
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My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.
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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
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Lesson one: If you're ever in a beautiful cathedral, take your hat off!
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I think it's a great thing to hear the author reading. I've listened to CDs of Cheever and Updike reading their stories and Hemingway. To hear what their voices were like is amazing. Whether they're reading well or not, it's great to listen to the intonation and the beat of the guy who wrote the story.
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A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.
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You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.
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In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
