Diane Ackerman Quotes
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
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And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.
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I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.
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I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.
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I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
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The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
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The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but those abounding in knowledge and disciplined in intellectual combinations.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.
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In Iraq, American administration said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells.
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Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.
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Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.
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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
