Lynn Margulis Quotes

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

Lynn Margulis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 5, 1938 - November 22, 2011

Topics

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My favorite thing to do is still to go back to Peoria, go to my cabin and hunt with the boys. This is a great lifestyle, don't get me wrong. But fun for me is going back with my buddies I grew up with.

Jim Thome

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There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

Andrew Bird

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I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.

Maz Jobrani

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Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited.

Robert Lepage

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Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

Robert Mondavi

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Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

Robert Hughes

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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Anna Seward

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It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal.

Angie Harmon

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I think 'director' is a very broad term. I like to think of myself as the head collaborator, not the director, because I think, for a lot of people, 'director' connotes giving orders and telling people what to do.

Rocky Carroll

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Only Congress can treat the gaping wound that is our broken immigration system.

Jared Polis

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I didn't want to be one of those ex-pros, aye hanging around. I think that's wrong.

Drew Busby

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It's very easy for people to say what's wrong with education in Arizona, but if I'm elected as governor, I want to focus on what we're doing well and maximizing the impact of what we know is working.

Doug Ducey

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