Joshua Foer Quotes
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
Jack Herer -
Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
Eddy Cue -
My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
Candace Parker
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson -
Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
J. August Richards -
Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
Carine Roitfeld -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
Pankaj Mishra -
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Walter Benjamin -
I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
Ira Sachs -
The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
Kate Clinton -
Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
Larry Wall -
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
Henry David Thoreau -
Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.
Patrisse Cullors
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I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
Hannah Marks -
I get tired of people trying to dog out the radio for not playing this or that. There are lots of people who like what they play - otherwise, they wouldn't play it.
Chris Stapleton -
My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
Darrell Issa -
I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
Taylor Dane -
I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.
Nikolaas Tinbergen -
To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.
Joshua Foer