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.
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
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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.
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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.
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Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?
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I went blonde which killed my hair. It was a disaster. I think it was neat to do it for a bit.
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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.
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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.
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You can just start to feel really pregnant. Like you are the hugest person on the face of the planet.
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The most effective way to save endangered species is to protect the places they need to live.
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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.
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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.
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He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
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Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
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Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured.
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The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In the end, however, the species is temporary; it has no "eternal life." After existing for a certain period, it either dies or is converted by modification into other forms.
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The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director's work after 'Jackie Brown,' the movie is pure sensation. It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness--it's too shallow to be called nihilism--undermines even the best scenes.
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When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
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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.
