Vaclav Smil Quotes

We insist on celebrating lone heroic path-finders, but even the most admired and the most successful inventors are part of a more remarkable supply chain of innovators who are largely ignored for the simpler mythology of one man or one eureka moment.

Vaclav Smil

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MomentManMoreSuccessfulMythology

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

Jim Lehrer

DeathMoreMarinesDoubleBeenThan

We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

Jeffrey Kluger

WorkLearningPowerBrokenSibling

Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.

Jeffrey Kluger

WorldGrowBornRoyalWayNever

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

Jeane Dixon

PurposeMeaningOurEndowedLives

I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.

Silas Weir Mitchell

MorningGreatNew YorkChurchDoing

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

Romesh Gunesekera

MeWritingWorldUnderstandingWay

The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

Mary Karr

GodMeFailWillingWriterThing

When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.

Jonathan Groff

ArtPieceRelateAnybodySpecific

People like to use the word 'naivete' as a negative, but not for me.

Brian Tyree Henry

PeopleMeNegativeLikeWordUse

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

Anthony Holden

CompetitionPracticeDesignNever

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson

LightCoolWorthHeatJudgment

People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.

Susanna Moore

PeopleSurviveWolfTroubleWill

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