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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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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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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Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicle Cats come one come all: The Jellicle Moon is shining bright - Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.
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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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When some were saying that if Cæsar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, 'for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot.'
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The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
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I do a pretty good job at casting actually.
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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
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With 140 words in Chinese, you really can write a novel. Most of Confucius’s sentences are only four words, so 140 words might take his whole life to write. And you can discuss the most profound ideas related to democracy, freedom, poetry.
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
