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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When I first moved to L.A., I thought about turning gay. Then I realized none of the guys I was interested in was good enough for me.
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. J.I. Packer
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I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives.
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One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
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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.
