Carolyn Chute Quotes
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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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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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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If any one age could be singled out as the worst in the history of Christendom, it would be the administration of Pope Pius XII, the most reactionary head of the most reactionary single force in the world - a force that binds men's minds, a force that divides them, a force that chains them so that they are unable to think and act for themselves.
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It wasn't until I got to Cambridge that I discovered active discrimination against women.
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I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.
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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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Today's world is very cruel.
