John Muir Quotes

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

John Muir

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In the 1970s, the scare was about global cooling.

Maurice Flanagan

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I think that all people are many people. I think all people have many, many, many different souls inside, and they just shift from one to the other.

Jeff Buckley

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I thought: 'It would be great to create a series of clothes that looked like that tree.' Clothes that gave you the green of the leaf and the warm brown of the underside of that leaf and the vanilla colored blossom.

Stanley Marcus

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I always wanted to be a mommy.

Stephanie Seymour

AlwaysWantedMommy

The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

Robert Trout

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I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

Rumi

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I picked economics at the end of my undergraduate time because it seemed to be a really nice combination of theory, including mathematical theory on one hand, and things that are quite practical that you can touch and see and feel. So I picked it, and I consciously thought of it as an experiment to see if I liked it. And it worked.

Michael Spence

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War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

Ludwig von Mises

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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Christopher Alexander

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I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

Bob Corker

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I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.

Sherri Shepherd

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

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