Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we're doing, but we're not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist.
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If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
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You exist only in what you do.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.
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Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.
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My God! Middle Earth does exist!
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Love is to fear as light is to dark; in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. So wherever there is a place of fear in your life, think of one thing - even if it's just a thought you can think-where you can generate love to cast out the fear.
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The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.
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...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
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Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.
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The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking.
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The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and exploring the whole pop or classical canon, were just as important as algebra or biology. Music is such a visceral and tactile experience for a kid, and to just replace that with video games or something that doesn't have the same sort of physical impact would definitely be a poor choice, and have a negative impact.
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For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.
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There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we're doing, but we're not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist.
