Alvin O'Konski Quotes
Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.
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There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
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Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.
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I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.
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In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.
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Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.
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The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.
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Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
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The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed.
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First, educate yourself about what a vegan diet entails and why it is beneficial to your health. You need to understand and embrace the philosophy or you will not be able to make such a drastic dietary change. Secondly, make the change over time. Don't try and "go cold turkey"; you will shock your system and you will develop cravings that you may not be able to fight off. If you take your time and let your body adjust you will be eating a completely different diet before you realize it.
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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
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I didn't marry. I didn't have children. I followed the food supply for jobs. I kept writing at night. And that kept me moving. It kept my life disruptive. It broke up many relationships. Was it worth it? Yes.
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I don't believe in disabilities, I believe in ability.
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Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.
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In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.
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Anger is so much easier than grief.
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Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .
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Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.
