Aldo Leopold Quotes
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.Aldo Leopold
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
Katha Pollitt -
Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
Laura Bell Bundy -
The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
Zach Galifianakis -
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. Milne -
In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
Forest Whitaker
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
Gavin Newsom -
Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
Xenophon -
I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
M. Ward -
I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.
J. G. Ballard -
Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.
Jack Dangermond -
They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
Samuel P. Huntington
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Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.
Irwin Rose -
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
Ralph Cudworth -
The end of the Republic has never looked better.
Barack Obama -
You can always tell when gas is expensive. You always see street gangs doing walk-bys.
Larry the Cable Guy -
This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.
Harriet Harman -
This is my question, for life: have we retired the phrase, 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me'? Is it legal for me to say, 'I endorse hate speech, I don't give a fuck'? I want hate speech. Why can't I hate you...in speech?
Patrice O'Neal
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The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character
Benjamin Graham -
I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.
David Souter -
know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain, You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'. And the stresses of life can take you off the right path, Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff... We gotta hold it down so we can move on past All adversities, so we can get through fast.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest -
What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.
P. C. Cast -
Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
Carl Clinton Van Doren -
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
Aldo Leopold