Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
A hundred starlings let loose in Central Park have by now multiplied to more than two hundred million.
Quotes to Explore
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Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.
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I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. They all have their own presence when they walk into a room, and I was excited to see what Tom Selleck's 'space' was going to be like.
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I respect religion and will respect any religion.
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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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I'd like to change what people expect. I want to evoke something that's not nameable, for people to go, 'Huh?'
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The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
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The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building.
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What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone
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If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.
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The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.
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But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new 'things.'
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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.
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With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.
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I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.
