Nancy Willard Quotes
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I've never been a partier.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
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I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who know a lot more about it than I do.
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There's really nothing better than a hunt ball.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
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Live in your roots, not in your branches.
