Barry Commoner Quotes
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.
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Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds.
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You guys made the right decision. We're going to enjoy another orbit.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
