Rachel Carson Quotes
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'
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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.
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I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
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Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.
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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
