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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There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
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It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
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People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
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The voice of the Spirit is described in the scriptures as being neither loud nor harsh, not a voice of thunder, neither a voice of great tumultuous noise, but rather as still and small, of perfect mildness, as if it had been a whisper, and it can pierce even the very soul and cause the heart to burn. The Spirit does not get our attention by shouting.
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I don't get butterflies. I get a good feeling in my stomach before I compete. When I don't, I get worried.
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Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.
