Annie Leonard Quotes
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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I don't have proper places to run.
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.
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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've got to do all those things. It makes it tough.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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I like to run fast but not drive.
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My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.
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Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.
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In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
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I run away from super-bandage-style Herve Leger dresses. I think it's sexier for a woman to be in something sheer and loose.
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Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.
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Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
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I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.
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Everything goes in cycles. There isn't anything that lasts indefinitely.
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.
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I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".
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You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.
