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
Quotes to Explore
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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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This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.
Quentin L. Cook
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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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Racists are not born, they are raised. Isolation is the breeding ground for racism. The more you come to know the world around you and people different than you the less likely you will become an extremist. The Church needs to bring the world together.
Erwin McManus
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I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
Travis Barker
Blink-182
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I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?
Amy Poehler
