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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.
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Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
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Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally do it in a rush. I have to get it out, otherwise I can't sleep.
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The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.
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I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.
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You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.
