Edward Abbey Quotes
If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
Quotes to Explore
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
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The world wants to like America.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.
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People are always judging you based on where you're from, where you went to school, how you look, how you talk. But at the end of the day, you're going to have to look into the mirror and accept who you are. It's all about being authentic.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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The reason we love nature is because it's fascinating and we love all the creatures, but if you watch any nature film, there's always a lesson: "the creatures are all dying and life sucks." The same is true of literature.
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If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
