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  • Cary Fowler To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Mary Webb To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
    Mary Webb
    English novelist and poet
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  • Aleister Crowley To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Muriel Spark To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin To me the ''female principle'' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Bo Bennett To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Truman Capote To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
    Conversations
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Quentin Crisp To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
    The Naked Civil Servant (1968) Ch. 9
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Barbara Walters To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals - and critics of the Women's Movement.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Nathaniel Branden To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Agnes Martin To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Anna Lindh To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • André Gide To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Charles Kuralt To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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  • Lao-Tzu To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • C. Wright Mills To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
    Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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