Rachel Carson Quotes
The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.
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Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones.
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I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.
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I think Kanye West is brilliant at what he does: he's got a different live show, different merch for every tour, different vibes, and he just puts out great records.
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
