Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Birds were also hard-hit; perhaps three-quarters of all bird families, perhaps more, went extinct.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.
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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
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I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.
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In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.
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Make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.
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If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.
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Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
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It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
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Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.
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The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.
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Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
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One can't teach a cat not to catch birds.
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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.
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Birds were also hard-hit; perhaps three-quarters of all bird families, perhaps more, went extinct.
