George Perkins Marsh Quotes
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
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Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.
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Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
