William Ruckelshaus Quotes
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.
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There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.
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I think it's very helpful having Twitter and all that. I mainly talk about work on Twitter. I keep my personal life separate from my work life, but I think it helps because everybody's on the Internet now - everybody has Facebook; everybody has Twitter.
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The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
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It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.
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We must work-in the words of New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton-to really see each other. Perhaps the reason we struggle as a nation is because we’ve come to see only what we represent, at face value, instead of who we are. We simply must see the people we serve.
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Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.
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If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.
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In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.
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A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.
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The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.
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You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not just the focus of your experience, but practically the sole content of your experience, everything else falling by the wayside.
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How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.
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To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.
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Why argue about things you can't prove?
