William Rathje Quotes
Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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I lean into all things that are a little off. I will always wear overalls. At this point, I find a way in most of my life to wear a jumpsuit or an overall, anything that's sort of like an all-in-one situation. I do that on the red carpet a lot.
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.
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Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
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That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
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One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.
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I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.
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Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'
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After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.
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Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.
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If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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I wasn't brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on - Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur'an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.
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I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
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Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.
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I'm understated in my approach.
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
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There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.
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Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.
