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How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer. Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.
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How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
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Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
Source: Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003 -
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
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I agree that the last years of life are the best, if one is a philosopher.
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I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.
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I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
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I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
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