Barry Commoner Quotes
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
Ian Hislop
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
Bam Margera
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
Ike Skelton
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Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.
Aristotle
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Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
Abby Wambach
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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
Cameron Crowe
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Fay: I'm innocent till I'm proved guilty. This is a free country. The law is impartial.Truscott: Who's been filling your head with that rubbish?Fay: I can't be had for anything. You've no proof.Truscott: When I make out my report I shall say you've given me a confession. It could prejudice your case if I have to forge one.
Joe Orton
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Barry Commoner