Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Quotes to Explore
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.
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People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that's not always the case.
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.
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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
