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James Lovelock is one of the great thinkers of our time. His ideas and inventions have opened up new insights into our planet and the way it works, and the story behind them will appeal to a very wide audience. I am pleased to recommend this book.

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• Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Men
  • Think
  • Yourself

• There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Want
  • Rules

• With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Growing
  • Universe
  • Watch

• We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Together
  • Growing
  • Stop

• The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Law

• My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Me
  • Hug

• Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

  

  Dean Inge
  • Democracy

• I would have preferred to keep both brands. But in the way (that) it developed, I am very satisfied.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • Way
  • Development
  • Brands

• Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Patient
  • Doctors
  • Quack

• I've always been very strong minded on character-based fights and character-based action. If you take the character out of the action and you just shoot it as an action sequence, the audience starts to lose connection.

  

  Wade Eastwood
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Action

• We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Needs
  • Boss

• Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny…

  

  Liam James
  • May
  • Dreams
  • Destiny

• The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who lives in and for others. And the more personal relationships we form with others, the more we truly realize ourselves as persons. It has even been said that there can be no true person unless there are two, entering into communication with one another.

  

  Kallistos Ware
  • Real
  • True
  • Communication

• Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's workings; and, spite of all your skill, I read to the depths." This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God.

  

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Powerful

• We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

  

  Benjamin Creme
  • Planet
  • Poisoned
  • Toxification

• We're worried about when people hear this, they'll say, 'Oh, it's St. Louis city, Look how far they've come.

  

  Ed Martin
  • Hear
  • Worried

• James Lovelock is one of the great thinkers of our time. His ideas and inventions have opened up new insights into our planet and the way it works, and the story behind them will appeal to a very wide audience. I am pleased to recommend this book.

  

  Chris Rapley
  • Works
  • Planet
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