Diane Ackerman Quotes
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The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.
Ugo Monye
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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In the midst of darkness, light persists.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.
Natasha Bedingfield
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You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.
Sarah Dessen
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An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
Tony Hillerman
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
Karl Lagerfeld
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My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
Walter Mosley
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Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.
Diane Ackerman
