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Elizabeth Kolbert has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can…
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It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what…
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It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a…
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
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Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able…
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Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the…
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Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear…
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What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do…
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In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
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Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.…
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Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
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It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
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Popular South Pacific quotes from across the collection:
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Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my…
— Louise Brown
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills…
— Larry Mullen, Jr.
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In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand…
— Max De Pree
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I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of…
— James A. Michener
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There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.
— Peter Arnett
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It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a…
— Elizabeth Kolbert
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The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest…
— Jenny Shipley
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I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his…
— James Joyce
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You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth…
— Paul Keating
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If they can fight and die on Okinawa, Guadalcanal (and) in the South Pacific, they can play ball in America.
— Happy Chandler
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I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel…
— Matthew Fox
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You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed…
— Bob Feller
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