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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You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.
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Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.
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First ladies, you know, we look at Michelle Obama, and we look at most first ladies, and they seem like they have it all. You know, they live in the White House, they go to state dinners, they ride on Air Force One, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But first ladies do often feel that they are given short shrift or forgotten or left at the margins.
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For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men to show up in my studio in the clothes that they want to be wearing. And often times, those clothes would be the same trappings people would see on television and find menacing.
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[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy.
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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.
