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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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
Wayne Gretzky
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Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.
Les Dawson
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And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.
Henry Taube
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Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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A warrior has only one true friend: himself. So he feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks skill, he practises. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in the strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
David Gemmell
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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