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Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

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• In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • America
  • Success

• Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • You
  • Fool
  • Genius

• The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Great
  • History
  • Understanding

• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • God
  • Understanding

• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Short

• I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Think

• Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Good
  • Science
  • Professional

• This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Playing

• I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Song
  • Films
  • Advertising

• Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Theory

• Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Good
  • Real
  • Reality

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Literature

• There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Home
  • Culture
  • Food

• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • How

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Live
  • You
  • Streets

• Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Future
  • Freedom
  • Growing

• When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.

  

  Shakira
  • People
  • God
  • Nature

• Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

  

  Joichi Ito
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Real
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Reason
  • Advertising
  • Optimist

• Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Future
  • Humanity