Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. ~Leonardo DiCaprio
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I live in the moment. ~Amy Sedaris
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary. ~Ben Nelson
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
#quotes #nick-flynn #self #universe #ego

Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
#quotes #rose-george #freedom #caste #india

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
#quotes #mark-twain #ignorance #humor

Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
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You are only as old as you feel. ~English Proverb
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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