Aldo Leopold Quotes
The ordinary citizen today assumes that science knows what makes the community clock tick; the scientist is equally sure that he does not.
Quotes to Explore
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In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
Victor Francis Hess
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
Pankaj Mishra
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
Idina Menzel
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
Zygmunt Bauman
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
Oscar Robertson
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
Garrett Hedlund
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
Calvin Trillin
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
Irving Penn
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
Eamon de Valera
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
Quincy Jones
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
Nancy Pelosi
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
Zoe Saldana
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
Barry Zito
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I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.
Cilla Black
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The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?
Kacey Musgraves
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We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today.
R. D. Laing
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The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.
Brendan Behan
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
Mandy Moore
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The ordinary citizen today assumes that science knows what makes the community clock tick; the scientist is equally sure that he does not.
Aldo Leopold