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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One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.
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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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Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. You know, I think the novel keeps redefining the world we live in. What you should look for in a novel is a window nobody else is looking out of, that nobody else can look through. What you look for is a voice. You pick up a novel by someone such as Faulkner or Hemingway and you just read three pages and you know who wrote it. And that's what one should demand of a novelist.
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In a Christian Theocracy, you'll never be Christian enough. There's always going to be somebody there with another version of Christianity that is more Christian than you and you're going to lose the freedom to make the choice because you didn't defend the Separation of Church and State when you had the chance.
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As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.
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If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.
