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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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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'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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I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.
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My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.
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When bosses, leaders, and powerful men and women ignore or deny the accounts of harassment victims, they reinforce the idea that harassers are playing the game as they should and that the rest of us should fall in line.
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When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.
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For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.
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I was grinding like I was winning the tournament.
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I told them the producers I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.
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Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
