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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The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.
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They were running out of suspects and into dead ends. They were running into airtight alibis and out of patience. They were running up one-way alleys and phone bills. They were running down a killer who did not yet exist. They were running around in circles.
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With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.
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People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.
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Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.
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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.
