Rachel Carson Quotes
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
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I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
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The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
