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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Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.
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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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We commute to computers Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors We survivalists, turned to consumers.
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If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.
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Birds were also hard-hit; perhaps three-quarters of all bird families, perhaps more, went extinct.
