Donella Meadows Quotes

Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one.

Donella Meadows

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Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

John Malkovich

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If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.

Angus Deaton

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In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

Andy Murray

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Flip-flops are a privilege, not a right.

Michael Bastian

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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Stephen Hawking

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I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Romain Gary

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By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

Michael N. Castle

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I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

Dirk Benedict

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I never go sexy. I'm more into a well-made pair of pants and a good shoe.

Dree Hemingway

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A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

Bruce Cockburn

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I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.

Apolo Ohno

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