Geraldine Ferraro Quotes
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.
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Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.
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Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.
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My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.
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The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?
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We live in an age that makes truth pass for treason, and as I dare not say anything against it, so the ears of those that are about me will probably be found too tender to hear it. This my trial and condemnation do sufficiently evidence.
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Because we're becoming such an urban nation, we're going to need to be producing so much more food in cities. These institutions have members, obviously. They have the resources to start projects like urban farms and gardens, teaching tools, and the ability to educate their members so that they can then go home and start their own urban gardens. I just really think that faith-based institutions can take the lead in creating community-based food systems, and I'd really like to see that happen.
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I remember Massimo [Pupillo] sending me an email from Tibet saying he was up in a cave somewhere, being very still. We found we had lots of shared affinities that we'd never really talked about before.
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That is what we are against the ancient-Greek ideas about art, because that is the key to the classic and tragic finality from which we must free ourselves.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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They were here. After a while of their searching around and taking pictures, they took the kids.
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We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
