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Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

Meghan O'Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1976

Topics

Mother Beginning Beyond Her Notion

On climate change, we are told that there will be a civilization-ending development in the form of massive sea level rise as soon as 2050. Anybody plan to be here in 2050? I think a few of us do, myself included.

Change Sea Myself Think Plan Rise

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

Stefano Pessina

Work Money Building Glory Now Just

I finished my university, was part of NSD, and did full length plays on stages.

University Full Did Finished Stages

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

Thinking You Expert Expertise Gain

For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

Christopher McDougall

Run Ancestors Heat Spread Planet

I believe that the writers of Genesis had detected the inherent selfishness in human nature that I propose is in our genes, and invented the myth of original sin to account for it. It's an image. I am not acting as an exegete - I don't interpret scripture.

Christian de Duve

Nature I Am Believe Acting Sin

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

William Irwin Thompson

Life Time Culture Mind Enough Long

Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.

William Whitehead

Old Knows Every Which Tale

For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.

Reality Better Variety Show Worse

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

Best Doing Enthusiasm You Lose Find

Method Man is a rough, rugged street dude, but all the girls love him.

Love Man Street Him Rough Dude

At some point... Israel ground away, or gave away, her birthright of loyalty from the West.

Richard Ben Cramer

Loyalty Point Ground Israel Her

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