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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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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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual.
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The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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Per me si va ne la città dolente,per me si va ne l'etterno dolore,per me si va tra la perduta gente.
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Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
