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Ogden Nash: Wolves, shepherds and butchers
“Either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow.” —Ogden Nash.
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Chinese proverb: Knowing and doing
“It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.” —Chinese proverb.
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Rebel Wilson: Comic stereotype
“In comedy, it’s not the glamorous, beautiful people that are great at comedy. They’re either every man or every woman, they’re either quite tall and lanky or shorter and fatter or have a big nose. They have something physically about them that makes them into a comic stereotype.” —Rebel Wilson.
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G K Chesterton: Grace
“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Religious liberty
“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Mark Kelly: No garbage trucks in space
“It’s important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don’t have that in space.” —Mark Kelly.
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Seneca: Honest heart
“An honest heart possesses a kingdom.” ~ Seneca.
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Jennifer Nini: More sustainable world
“We can’t just consume our way to a more sustainable world.” – Jennifer Nini.
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Luther Standing Bear: Old Lakota was wise
“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.” – Luther Standing Bear.
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Franklin D Roosevelt: Lungs of our land
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Katy Perry: Miley Cyrus
“If people want a role model, they can have Miley Cyrus!” —Katy Perry.
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Robert Jackson: Infallible
“We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.” —Robert Jackson.
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Ekta Kapoor: Great basic thoughts
“Yes, I am an entrepreneur but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have a B-school education. You need to evolve and re-evolve to align yourself with changing tastes and great content is all about great basic thoughts!” —Ekta Kapoor.
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Robert Sengstacke Abbott: No greater glory, no greater honour
“No greater glory, no greater honor, is the lot of man departing than a feeling possessed deep in his heart that the world is a better place for his having lived.” —Robert Sengstacke Abbott.
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Edward Abbey: Patriot
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government.” —Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (29 Jan 1927-1989).
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Richard Gere: Meditation
“Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.” —Richard Gere.
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Simon Sinek: Optimists
“Great leaders are optimists. This is not the same as being positive. Positive is finding the light in the now; optimists see the light always.” —Simon Sinek.
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Aldo Leopold: Conservation
“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.” – Aldo Leopold.
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Thomas Sigsgaard: Solve a problem that hasn’t been solved
“The most sustainable way is to not make things. The second most sustainable way is to make something very useful, to solve a problem that hasn’t been solved.” – Thomas Sigsgaard.
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Stewart Udall: Plans to protect man
“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.” – Stewart Udall.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Mirror reflection
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
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Thomas Fuller: Worth of water
“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” – Thomas Fuller.
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Terry Swearingen: Another one to go to
“We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to.” – Terry Swearingen.
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Gina McCarthy: Matter of public health
“At its core, the issue of a clean environment is a matter of public health.” – Gina McCarthy.
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Pete Seeger: Restricted, designed or removed from production
“If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, designed or removed from production.” – Pete Seeger.
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Pam Shoemaker: Recycling
“When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.” – Pam Shoemaker.
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Annie Leonard: It must go somewhere
“There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away it must go somewhere.” – Annie Leonard.
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Fred Rogers: Beginning of something else
“Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” – Fred Rogers.
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Robert Swan: Greatest threat to our planet
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” – Robert Swan.
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Chris Pratt: Best way to combat depression
“Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best anti-depressive that there is.” —Chris Pratt.
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Ellen Page: Space to work out who to be
“When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.” —Ellen Page.
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Carrie Bickmore: Grief
“Grief is something that doesn’t start and finish on a certain date. It comes and goes, it ebbs and flows, and sometimes years after an event you can feel like you’re right back there again.” —Carrie Bickmore.
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Abraham Lincoln: Religion and infidelity
“It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.” —Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (12 Feb 1809-1865).
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Warren Buffett: Good ideas
“We like to go in heavy. I mean, if we want to invest in a business through the stock market, we want to put a lot of money in. We do not believe in a little of this and a little of that…. Good ideas are too scarce to be parsimonious with once you find…
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Miley Cyrus: Beauty is the enemy
“Beauty is the enemy . We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It’s a battle that can’t be won. There’s no definition of beauty. The only way to achieve beauty is to feel it from inside without breaking down into individual physical attributes.” —Miley Cyrus.
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Chris Cornell: One of the main dilemmas
“One of the main dilemmas that’s pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the idea that maybe there’s a finish line and that maybe there’s a time in your life when you start to slow down and stop and smell the roses and just kind of settle into what will…
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Princess Anne: Pest
“You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.” —Princess Anne.
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G K Chesterton: Lunacy of men
“There is no limit to the lunacy of men when they think themselves superior both to laughter and humility.” —G K Chesterton.
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Cate Blanchett: Miniature plastic
“You know you’ve made it when you’ve been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls – it’s a bit scary, actually.” —Cate Blanchett.
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Dolly Parton: Deeper roots
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” —Dolly Parton.
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Katie Piper: Don’t wait
“Don’t wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don’t wait until you lose somebody. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.” —Katie Piper.
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Penny Lancaster: He isn’t going to be replaced
“You always have to make sure your husband knows he isn’t going to be replaced.” —Penny Lancaster.
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Liam Hemsworth: Men look good in suits
“All women think men look good in suits. To be honest, I like the way they look, too.” —Liam Hemsworth.
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Ellen DeGeneres: Form of bullying
“Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.” —Ellen DeGeneres.
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Kamala Harris: Everyone will fall short
“If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.” —Kamala Harris.
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G K Chesterton: Physics and ethics
“Physics is a science: it has fixed methods, and final and demonstrated conclusions. Ethics is not a science at all in that sense; it is universally admitted and discussed…but no single iota of it has ever been demonstrated as the circulation of the blood has been demonstrated.” —G K Chesterton.
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Frank Robinson: If you only had the experience
“I was willing to do whatever I had to do to break that barrier because all I kept hearing was, ‘If you only had the experience.’ I was trying to eliminate that excuse.” —Frank Robinson, first black Major League Baseball manager.
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Alicia Keys: Too much darkness in the world
“There’s too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin’ to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there’s a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you’re not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.” —Alicia Keys.
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Letitia Wright: That’s what God wanted for me
“Say you want to be with someone, and you’re doing something that they don’t really like. They’re gonna ask you to stop it, just for a moment to take a look at them, to see them clearly. That’s what God wanted for me.” —Letitia Wright.
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G K Chesterton: Religious liberty
“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.” —G K Chesterton.
