Alan Thein Durning Quotes
But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.
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A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.
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I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.
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It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991.
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But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
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I've made it very clear what I believe in -- a sense of family, community, respect for the law, Britain controlling its own direction.
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As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.
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It was a team effort. We did everything that we needed for the win. You can't put it on one thing. We've been doing a lot of things well. We're playing well together. We're defending. We're doing a lot of positive things out there. We're putting ourselves in a (position) to win. We're giving ourselves a chance every night, just playing well defensively. We feel like every night we can score 100 points, but we've got to stop people.
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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
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There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
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Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.
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I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.
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But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.
