Rachel Carson Quotes
We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.
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Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the 'perreos' of Plan B.
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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
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It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.
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Fear is crippling. Fear of the future can convince us that there is no way out and nothing is ever going to get better. Fear is blinding; it can make us miss the warning signs flashing right in front of our eyes. It can also make you miss those brilliant flashes of color, when the world isn't so gray. But, if you think about it, being afraid isn't such a bad thing. Because fear is a reminder that you still have something to lose. Something worth holding onto.
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We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.
