Wes Jackson Quotes
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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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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Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.
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There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
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I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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I've seen a few 60-point ballgames in my time, but none of them had been done by the third quarter.
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How dark are all the ways of god to man!
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We have carbon in the atmosphere. That is a material in the wrong place problem. It's just like what I said about the lead. Lead in the biosphere is not good. Carbon in the atmosphere (over natural levels) is a problem.
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
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I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.
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Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.
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Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.
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If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.
