Barney Oliver Quotes
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
Barney Oliver
Quotes to Explore
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
Walter Kirn
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
Wayne Dyer
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
Barbara Hepworth
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.
Barton Gellman
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
Oprah Winfrey
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
T. J. Perkins
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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
Samantha Power
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By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
Rachel Carson
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It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.
Larry Wall
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Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.
Christopher Buckley
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
Barney Oliver
