Rusty Schweickart Quotes

When you have an asteroid threatening Earth, it's uncertain where it's going to hit until the last minute; the decision to take action has to be coordinated by the international community.

Rusty Schweickart

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CommunityDecisionActionYouEarth

It doesn't take science to know that when you have head-to-head collisions, there's going to be some effect.

Jim Brown

ScienceYouKnowTakeGoingEffect

I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.

Jenson Button

LoveStruggleSwimmingDrivingFind

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

John Leonard

WithoutAppetiteHeMuchWhich

Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.

Stephen Kinzer

PowerHumilityWinCompromiseTake

People fight in New Orleans about what's the best po'boy, and Domilise's always comes up. It's the best one I've ever had.

Robert Ben Garant

BestFightPeopleNewNew Orleans

I'm persuaded today that the only way you can get into another country with a different culture from your own is to find a local partner who knows the market. Discovering this felt like small children discovering that if you put a bobby pin into an electric plug you get a shock!

Roberto Civita

TodayChildrenCultureSmallPartner

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

Ruth Benedict

LifeTroubleAnswersAnswerMany

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

Lou Barletta

ChooseAuthorityGoingLawsPick

If you could taste words, most corporate websites, brochures, and sales materials would remind you of stale, soggy rice cakes: nearly calorie free, devoid of nutrition, and completely unsatisfying.

Jason Fried

WordsFreeYouWebsitesNutrition

'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.

Jason Reitman

LifeLoveCoffeeSacrificeSelf

My father was a bricklayer, and my mother was a housewife. It was complicated, obviously, because of our humble origin, but thank God we were all focused.

Jose Aldo

FatherMotherGodHumbleThank God

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Annie Besant

GoodReligionWorldPhilosophyNews

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