Bill Mollison Quotes
You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.
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The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
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It helps enormously to have had a loving mother. Mothers can give their daughters permission to love their fathers. Mothers can help their daughters feel good about becoming mothers. Mothers can help daughters learn the value of openness and female friendship, especially when times are bad
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Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.
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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
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The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
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The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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It is awesome to have the fans come here. It really pumps our guys up to have the seats full. The noise really projects onto the field and helps our guys.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.
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Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
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It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.
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Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
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I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'
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No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
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The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.
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Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. In a way, if someone says this didn't feel exactly right, I don't care. But that is not okay to do in academia - it's not about feeling. You want to establish a pretty solid case. So did this allow me to express things differently? Absolutely. Another thing I've been thinking about as an academic: our writing style is expository, and in fiction, withholding information matters quite a bit. Withholding things in academia - there's no place for that!
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You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.
