Paul Hawken Quotes
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
Quotes to Explore
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.
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With the tone of the show, like a lot of the films, the Marvel creative team has found a way to bridge really exciting stuff that has real stakes. They balance some of the action stuff that the fans of the comics really want to see with characters that people can relate to and who are very human.
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He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.
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Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.
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He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.
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She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college and was a great fan of Noam Chomsky. She was a real lefty and yet was not able to meet her dream of becoming an artist. She got drafted into motherhood big time - seven kids - and that wasn't the life that she had planned. So she opened the path so that I could be the artist that she wanted to be.
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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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The industry just hasn't been thinking outside the box when it comes to Latina women.
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Henny “was one of those women who secretly symphathize with all women against all men; life was a rotten deal, with men holding all the aces.
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No, they had most of their guys before they won the national championship.
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To be honest, I don't really consider myself a prodigy. Learning the piano, I have encountered some difficulties. There are many challenges in playing and I've grown frustrated at times... But because I like to play the piano, I never thought of giving up. I was always able to overcome difficulties in pianistic techniques. Yes, there might be some 'traffic lights', but they all turned 'green'.
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I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.
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There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
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We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.
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The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
