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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Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.
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In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!
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Love just happens, you know.
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Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.
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I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school. What first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history. That makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.
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If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.
