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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Why is it”—she shivered as he kissed the top of her spine, went lower—“that I always end up naked while you remain dressed?” A husky masculine chuckle, his lips moving over her shoulder, his hands on her hips. “Because I'm a smart man.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Pakistan's political instability is its greatest vulnerability, and a decline in U.S. power would reduce America's ability to aid Pakistan's consolidation and development.
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What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.
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Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.
