Francis Cabot Lowell Quotes
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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But I've consistently worked for 10 years.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Space expands or contracts in the tensions and functions through which it exists. Space is not a static, inert thing. Space is alive; space is dynamic; space is imbued with movement expressed by forces and counterforces; space vibrates and resounds with color, light and form in the rhythm of life.
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Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
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Sexual scandals are especially effective against Republicans who can then also be accused of hypocrisy inasmuch as they're always spouting off about morality and junk like that. Of course, some personal issues such as former Klan membership or leaving the scene of a fatal accident are off limits for obvious reasons
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The tired whine of 'But the Republicans are worse' will fall flat as more young Americans take charge of their future and move, with their reenergized elders, toward the Green Party and parallel civic and political movements.
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'Oh, son, I wish you hadn’t become a scenario writer!' she sniffled.'Aw, now, Moms,' I comforted her, 'it’s no worse than playing the piano in a call house.'
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We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.
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Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
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Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
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When men age, their love interests get younger. It doesn't stop them from doing different genres of stuff. As women age in film, you know, they go from the woman in charge to the mother, the grandmother... off a cliff somewhere.
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I think that most people believe that Russia, because of its - it has regained some of its military strength. And they do rattle the saber a bit. It wants to be a player.
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Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
