Bob Marshall Quotes
Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
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I'm not good at multi-tasking.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
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Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force.
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Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.
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By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.
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When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is you're given.
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I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.
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Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.
