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Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.
I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.
Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.
I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.
O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!
Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.
Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.
People vary. You change your style, your hair, and the way you dress. Talking differently will be a part of that.
Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.
Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.
It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?
Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.
Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.
Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.
It's hard to think of a time when I'm not working, but when that is the case, I like to travel and eat good food.
Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.
They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective.
Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard.
Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another
Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate
The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.
If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.
When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.
The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.
The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.
The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.
Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.
Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined.
I dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.
I was very invested in being smart and thought to be smart was more important than accomplishing anything in life.
Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.
To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.
Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.
The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.
You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)
There is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness.
Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.
Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.
When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.
The twelve months... Snowy, Flowy, Blowy, Showery, Flowery, Bowery, Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy, Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy.
I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.
Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.