Barry Commoner Quotes
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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387. I believe it might interest a philosopher, one who can think himself, to read my notes. For even if I have hit the mark only rarely, he would recognize what targets I had been ceaselessly aiming at.
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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
