Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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The way we are dancing in this show is the way you would only normally dance with your boyfriend or your husband. It's very sensual and sexual. You do get very close.
Rachel Hunter
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I can say unequivocally that we have gotten information through this program that would not otherwise have been available.
B. R. Hayden
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I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Why should beauty be suspect?
Auguste Renoir
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If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!
Henry Ward Beecher
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Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
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Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.
Blaise Pascal
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The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.
William Clay Ford, Sr.
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You must, said Benito Mussolini, accept “a life in which the individual, through the denial of himself, through the sacrifice of his own private interests . . . realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies.
Yaron Brook
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Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.
Sara Zarr
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People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years.
Vint Cerf
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You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.
Adolf Hitler
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It was strange to think that right now, his mom, dad, and sister were living their ordinary lives back in Mesa. Didn’t they notice his stuff in his room? Didn’t they wonder who the kid was in the pictures with them? He would find a way back to them and make them remember. There had to be a way.
Brandon Mull
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At his funeral the priest's words applied signally to him: 'The Christian Brothers are a body of men who live without luxury, labour without emolument, and die without notice, that they might stamp God's image on the soul of youth. That surely is a splendid vocation.
Edmund Campion
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Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.
Elizabeth Kolbert
