Charles Birch Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.
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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
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It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.
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I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.
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Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.
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Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
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I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people.
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Iraq has WMDs. It is not something we think, it is something we know. Iraq has itself admitted that it has had mustard gas, nerve gas, anthrax, but Saddam won't disclose. He won't tell us where and how these weapons have been destroyed. We know this from the UN inspectors, so there is no doubt in my mind.
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'Don’t tell me you aren’t the slightest bit curious, Norquinco.''I hope you burn in hell, Sky Haussmann.''I’ll take that as a yes.'
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It was so fun to see my hair all brushed out - it looked like caramel-flavored cotton candy!
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Science is our last and greatest frontier.
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I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.
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All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.
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We live in an age in which only one prejudice is tolerated - anti-Christian bigotry... Today, the only group you can hold up to public mockery is Christians. Attacks on the Church and Christianity are common.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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The reform of government needs to continue.
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The rich must live more simply, so that the poor may simply live.
