Scott Westerfeld Quotes
"Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."
Scott Westerfeld
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Aaron Patzer
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Dan Rosensweig
I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.
Pablo Sandoval
If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
Yair Lapid
The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it.
Jacob Zuma
I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it.
Edward Moore
None of the constitutional, legal or other principles bars me from returning to the judiciary, since the judiciary remains independent if the actors remain independent and fair.
Khil Raj Regmi
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
R.K. Narayan
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
Idries Shah
"Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."
Scott Westerfeld
