Diane Ackerman Quotes
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.
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Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
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I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.
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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
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In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he Pursewarden had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language'. (VIII)
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Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.
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Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.
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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
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A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.
