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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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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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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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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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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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
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Oh, I'm terribly ignorant of Czech literature. It's disgraceful really.
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You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition of an artist is - it isn't just to make art but to speak truth to what's happening, speak beauty into the world, speak love into the world and also... get involved.
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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.
