William O. Douglas Quotes
I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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I just can't get used to life.
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I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.
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Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.
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I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
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You don't sell the team short and say, 'We're just trying to make the playoffs,' or anything like that.
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I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.
