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By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

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• A woman should be an illusion.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Woman
  • Should
  • Illusion

• I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Make
  • Used
  • Watch

• I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Love
  • Like
  • Questions

• I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Cook
  • Decent
  • Vegetables

• To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Beautiful
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• I am always cautious.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips

• I had been thinking about social awkwardness and about people you meet who are not bad people - there is nothing wrong with them, but they are just a little bit awkward, and it makes you feel uncomfortable, and it makes you want to bring the encounter to an end. I thought, 'Is there a reason for that? What has contributed to their demeanour?'

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Myself
  • Idiot
  • Repeat

• If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Fear

• The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Rest
  • Present
  • Population

• When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.

  

  Ann Wagner
  • Job
  • Small
  • Government

• Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

  

  Edwin Clarence Riegel
  • Money
  • Power
  • Control

• Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Stop
  • Existence

• I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Time
  • Parents

• Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • Law
  • Struggle

• Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Habit
  • Virtue

• My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Energy
  • Thoughts
  • Sailing

• We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Could
  • Compete
  • Gibson

• By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

  

  Richard Louv
  • Humility
  • Lives