Ellen Wittlinger Quotes
When there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.
Quotes to Explore
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Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.
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Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.
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We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
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The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.
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I'm the youngest of five boys.
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Capablanca wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
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The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries.
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I just wanna affect the culture and wanna be able to support young people with goals that aren't just limited to rapping and producing.
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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
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Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.
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Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.
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The general feeling is a potential justice will simply say, 'No, I can't discuss this situation unless I have the facts of the case in front of me
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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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When there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.
