Rachel Carson Quotes
It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.
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I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
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I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
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The Tamil industry, while being better than all the other film industries when it comes to treating female actors, is still dominated by men. So, I can only work within the space offered to heroines, and I think I am doing that.
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White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day - mostly just to keep a conversation going, to avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone.
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I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
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It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.
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The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
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The music I do in live performances is made for a specific situation. I know that people are sitting down and shutting up and they're with me for 90 minutes. They're totally with me. Whatever I do, I know they have my attention and they follow my pace.
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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.
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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
