Edward Humes Quotes
Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a single person’s 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1,100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh’s pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the few relics of our civilization guaranteed to be recognizable twenty thousand years from now is the potato chip bag.
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I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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Americans underemployed or unemployed and a President Trump will put them back to work.
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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I think everybody would love to say they were in a movie. Whether or not I'm any good at it, I don't know.
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Can someone please explain to me what that was all about?
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Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.
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Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.
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Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.
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All things are full of gods.
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The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.
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Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
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It's just hard to say, "Well, I do this, which means this." If I'm telling you exactly who I am, then there's nothing for the audience to say.
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One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'
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To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
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Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.
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I go into a meditative state but I don't follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate.
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Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a single person’s 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1,100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh’s pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the few relics of our civilization guaranteed to be recognizable twenty thousand years from now is the potato chip bag.
