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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Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
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All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.
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Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.
