Rebecca Solnit Quotes
There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.
Rebecca Solnit
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
Rahm Emanuel
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
Naomi Benaron
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
Tab Hunter
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
Eddie Marsan
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
Samantha Power
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
C. K. Williams
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To eat passionately is to allow the world in.
Kate Christensen
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.
Barbara Kruger
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
Carl Andre
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We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...
Karl Barth
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Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
Chellie Pingree
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If you think about 2Pac, Biggie, and Nas, all of those guys were teenagers or in their early 20s when they got started. Everybody acts like young people have to be silly and lack perspective. Those guys had incredible perspective, and everything that they said was before 25 years old.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!
Jennifer Damiano
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I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention--it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature. Any word can be spelled just as well a different way.
Richard Feynman
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There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.
Rebecca Solnit
