Eugene Odum Quotes
Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.
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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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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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This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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I used to adore my old man because he was always so kind. That's one of the most beautiful things I have in my life - the way my father and mother were. And my father was a real ugly man. So it doesn't matter if you look like a gorilla. You see, dogs like us, we ain't such dogs as we think we are.
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If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.
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The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion.
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Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.
