Andrew Revkin Quotes
We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a way through here that won't lead to utter calamity.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
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The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!
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Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking.
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Loveless moments are to be avoided.
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As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.
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I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.
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I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.
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Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step
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As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.
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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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You have to adopt a mindset that says, 'Okay, in three months, I'll need to know all this stuff, and then in six months there's going to be a whole other set of things to know - again in a year, in five years.' The tools will change, the knowledge will change, the worries will change.
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Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.
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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.
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The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.
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Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.
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Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
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Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.
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We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a way through here that won't lead to utter calamity.
