Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.Elizabeth Kolbert
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
Ian Somerhalder -
Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley -
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London -
We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
Ban Ki-moon -
Being an only child is a disease in itself.
G. Stanley Hall -
Our journey in going beyond our home planet is a human endeavor, and in the greatest tradition of exploration, past, present, and future spacefarers will continue to be enduring catalysts for inspiration in our quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe.
John M. Grunsfeld
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If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?
Rachel Caine -
I went blonde which killed my hair. It was a disaster. I think it was neat to do it for a bit.
Lewis Hamilton -
I've met many young women who are HIV positive and courageously fighting the disease. Their determination to live a full life and see their children live in a better world is deeply inspiring to me.
Alicia Keys -
It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more profound when we think that there are many species, many creatures on earth that are very likely to have a mind, but are very unlikely to have a consciousness in the sense that you and I have.
Antonio Damasio -
The most effective way to save endangered species is to protect the places they need to live.
Lois Capps
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I actually don't meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I'm from another planet.
Claudia Schiffer -
It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it.
Donald Miller -
He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
G. I. Gurdjieff -
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
Aristotle -
So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.
Johannes Kepler -
The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success is our national disease.
William James
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Being a movie star isn't easy. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Your career goes through extreme ups and downs. You are judged all the time. Great things are written about you, but at the same time, not-so-good things are also said. At times, things are said about you that are completely untrue, and people mostly try to pull you down.
Deepika Padukone -
If you look in The Science of Getting Rich, you see no reference whatsoever to the law of attraction.
Esther Hicks -
One hundred percent of terrorist attacks on commercial airlines based in America for 20 years have been committed by Muslims. When there is a 100 percent chance, it ceases to be a profile. It's called a 'description of the suspect.'
Ann Coulter -
We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us, or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.
Christiana Figueres -
Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.
Elizabeth Kolbert