David W. Orr Quotes
The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.
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I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
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If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
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I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
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Form follows beauty.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.
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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
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I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.
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We inadvertently keep oppressing Africans when we label them by an approximated color - and even when we confuse a specific socio-cultural group such as the Afro-Americans with Africans.
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I still have a Japanese passport. I haven't become an American citizen, and I am worried about getting deported every day.
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God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin. In the truth of that gospel which hitherto I have written, taught and preached, I now joyfully die.
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The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
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Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning.
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The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.
