Paul R. Ehrlich Quotes
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
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A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university … This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.
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Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.
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'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
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My mom always told me, 'You're very smart; you're very funny.' She never told me, 'You're very beautiful.'
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Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
