Diane Ackerman Quotes
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our heads. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.
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I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.
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We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.
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AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.
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My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.
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I am a daddy's girl at heart, even though I'm in my 30s.
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Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?
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'If you are to be so emotionally wounded when you are bested in battle, then perhaps you would do well to hone your skills.' -Artemis Entreri
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At that stage my heart ruled my head'.
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Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so much from the point of view of pronunciation and grammar. I don't think we pick up very many sounds and grammatical instructions from the films we see - but the catchphrases.
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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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I've had the honor and privilege of knowing Jeff for over 25 years. He's been a dear friend and a mentor, and there is no finer person in public service than Jeff Sessions. He's conducted himself with the greatest integrity of any public official I've ever met.
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Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our heads. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.
