Edmund Hillary Quotes
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
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The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
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If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
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Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room...
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Better if he had said something natural like, 'Jesus, here we are.'
