Rebecca Solnit Quotes
I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in
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How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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I began to get calls from constituents, 'Do you think you can ever get on transportation?' So when there was a vacancy created, I worked very hard to get there.
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In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in an entire career.
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When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.
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When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.
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There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.
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I have the oldest whiplash in the business.
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My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
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These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for interpreting and interacting with God's creation, faulty theology and sociology emerge as mankind attempts to fashion God into the image of man.
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I have a suggestion for Microsoft — no fancy programming required. Just let us users hang out a 'Do Not Disturb' sign. Then leave us alone. We're dreaming.
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Perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
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When I started acting, I was asked said, 'What's your dream?' 'What would you like to achieve?' I would say, 'Oh, I'd like to sit opposite DeNiro and hold my own.' But, you never think it's gonna happen.
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I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.
