“Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.”
— John Muir
Author: John Muir
Category: nature
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“Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.”
— John Muir
Author: John Muir
Category: nature
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“All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.”
— Ulrich Beck
Author: Ulrich Beck
Category: religion
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“Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.”
— Ellsworth Huntington
Author: Ellsworth Huntington
Category: learning
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“If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.”
— Brittany Murphy
Author: Brittany Murphy
Category: mom
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“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”
— Gustav Mahler
Author: Gustav Mahler
Category: music
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“It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.”
— Jeremy Taylor
Author: Jeremy Taylor
Category: knowledge
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“It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.”
— Hedy Lamarr
Author: Hedy Lamarr
Category: women
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“The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.”
— Warren Farrell
Author: Warren Farrell
Category: legal
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“The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.”
— John Redwood
Author: John Redwood
Category: knowledge
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“My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.”
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov
Category: marriage
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“People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.”
— Ralph Lauren
Author: Ralph Lauren
Category: money
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