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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Habits change into character.
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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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If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.
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A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.
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It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.
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I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.
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It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
