Alfred W. Crosby Quotes
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.
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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
Fidel Castro
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
Naomi Watts
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
O. J. Simpson
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
Jack Steinberger
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
Dale Murphy
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
Garth Brooks
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
Hans Zimmer
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
Cara Delevingne
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
Ranbir Kapoor
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
Fetty Wap
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My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
Natalie Merchant
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
Fra Angelico
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I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
Lane Garrison
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan
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And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
Karen Hughes
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
Earle Brown
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The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.
Andy Grove
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The social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies.
Thomas Hardy
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Beauty is about Accepting yourself for who you are. It's about feeling secure about yourself. It's about feeling so blessed everyday that we are given the chance to live. All those beautiful feeling and positive energy inside you, now that is what makes you beautiful.
Davina Veronica
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Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is.
Eric Barker
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Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.
Alfred W. Crosby