Patricia Espinosa Quotes
The risk to cities from climate impacts carries great social and economic cost and, of course, the loss of human lives.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
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I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.
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The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.
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Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
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What does it mean to be a Saint? In the Lord's Church, the members are Latter-day Saints, and they attempt to emulate the Savior, follow His teachings, and receive saving ordinances in order to live in the celestial kingdom with God the Father and our Savior Jesus Christ.
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She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her
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You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.
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Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
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Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.
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Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
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If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.
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Bernard Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.
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The risk to cities from climate impacts carries great social and economic cost and, of course, the loss of human lives.
