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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More than a decade and half after 9/11, U.S. military actions in countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and several other Muslim nations are governed by the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was passed in the days immediately after 9/11.
Peter Bergen
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The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
Arthur Keith
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Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise.
Brian Bell
Weezer
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I enjoyed both equally, but in different ways, ... Maynard gave me the chance to do wonderful word comedy...When I was offered Gilligan, I chose it because that character gave me the chance to do physical comedy, which I love.
Bob Denver
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There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.
Rebecca Solnit
