Eugene Odum Quotes
Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.
Quotes to Explore
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
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On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
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I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.
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Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
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So what does it matter where it was when it was hit? We could have sunk it if it'd been tied up on the quayside in a neutral port and everyone would still have been delighted.
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Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.
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If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.
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There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.
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Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
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You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.
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Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.
