Diane Ackerman Quotes
We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can't really find a way to fit in.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
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I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.
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Being a social entrepreneur is a balancing act between growing and sustaining a business while also growing the company's ability to give back.
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As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
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When you drill down, blockchains are really a shared version of reality everyone agrees on. So whether it's a fully immersive VR experience, augmented reality, or even Bitcoin or Ethereum in the physical world as a shared ledger for our 'real world,' we'll increasingly trust blockchains as our basis for reality.
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We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
