Diane Ackerman Quotes
What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.
Diane Ackerman
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
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As is so often the case with butlers, there was a good deal of Beach. Julius Caesar, who liked to have men about him who were fat, would have taken to him at once. He was a man who had made two chins grow where only one had been before, and his waistcoat swelled like the sail of a racing yacht.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Oh please...As a standup, I tried to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Not necessarily in that order.
Lea DeLaria
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In the country of the blind, who are not as unobservant as they look, the one-eyed is not king, he is spectator.
Clifford Geertz
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Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.
Bernice King
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Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
Paulo Coelho
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They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.
T. E. Lawrence
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I grew up in the traditional American newspaper world with a morning paper and an afternoon paper competing with each other beat by beat by beat. It was the most fun I've ever had. And it was great for journalism.
Dean Baquet
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My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly, which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in this country.
Salmon Portland Chase
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Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.
T. S. Eliot
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What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.
Diane Ackerman
