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David Christian Quotes

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.

David Christian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: June 30, 1946

Topics

Nature Learning Power History Face

People believe practice makes perfect, but it doesn't. If you're making a tremendous amount of mistakes, all you're doing is deeply ingraining the same mistakes.

Jillian Michaels

Mistakes Practice People Believe You

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

Man Purpose Feel Connected Planet

I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.

Want Everything Available Just Guess

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

Work Yourself Think Doing You Back

Working with Shankar is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Opportunity Working

Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.

Will Cigarettes Ya

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

Money You Become More Realize Your

I didn't have the kind of talent or personality that kept me dreaming about Hollywood. They don't hire little colored girls to do this or that. After I got that in my head, I took another direction.

Personality Talent Me Direction Kind

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Home Live Trees Grow New Right

I'm a gamer. I play PlayStation all the time.

Time Play Playstation Gamer

O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.

World American America You Desire

Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?

Christine O'Donnell

Freedom Lie Me America Worth You

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