Alexander von Humboldt Quotes
At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with 'Space Jam.' Right after that movie, I went out there to my little Flight hoop and tried to do every dunk in the movie.
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Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.
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I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
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I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.
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When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.
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When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.
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The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true.
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“Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved.”
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In your time, politicians win points in the polls for proposing to punish unmarried teenaged mothers like me, not to mention our children.
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When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
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One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
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There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.
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At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
