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  • Bill Nye Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Hood But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!
    Thomas Hood
    English poet, author and humorist (1799 - 1845)
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  • Brent Scowcroft But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • C. S. Lewis But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are on concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
    Source: The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bob Geldof But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Ernest Hemingway But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Beau Bridges But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Nauman But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Brandon Routh But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis But then again of course I know perfectly well that He can't be used as a road. If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching Him at all.
    Source: A Grief Observed (1961)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bainbridge Colby But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Ben Stein But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, 'Well, how did life begin' -- they're...they don't have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it's a BS answer. It's an answer that wouldn't make sense to a small child.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Desiderius Erasmus By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Marcus Aurelius By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Camilla Belle By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Buford Cable made the Food Network possible. It was invented in 1993 by Reese Schoenfeld, a co-founder of CNN, who was convinced that its natural audience was women - millions of them.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • John Henry Newman Calculation never made a hero.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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