David W. Orr Quotes
What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.
Quotes to Explore
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
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I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
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I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
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there is time to play...and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.
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I believe that the want of our age is not more 'free' handling of the Bible, but more 'reverent' handling, more humility, more patient study, and more prayer.
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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
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What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.
