Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
Ralph W. Sockman
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
Yulia Tymoshenko
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
Florence Nightingale
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I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.
G. Willow Wilson
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
Victoria Abril
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'Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.'
Lee Kuan Yew
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We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.
Barack Obama
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The forces which displace continents are the same as those which produce great fold-mountain ranges. Continental drift, faults and compressions, earthquakes, volcanicity, transgression cycles and polar wandering are undoubtedly connected causally on a grand scale. Their common intensification in certain periods of the earth’s history shows this to be true. However, what is cause and what effect, only the future will unveil.
Alfred Wegener
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[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.
G. Edward Griffin
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Now I am weary and I can no longer tell good from Evil, and I need someone to show me the way.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.
Octavia E. Butler
