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I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my sense of, and… — Wynn Bullock
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,… — Wendell Berry
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,… — Wendell Berry
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality. — Mahatma Gandhi
Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot… — Theodore Schroeder
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding. — Stephen Covey
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a… — Thomas Boswell
About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult… — Donald Bradman
It is God's will to bless us, but not necessarily on our terms. Sometimes what we think would be a wonderful blessing would not bless… — Joyce Meyer
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul. — Ivan Turgenev
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich… — Unknown Author
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to… — Arthur Curley
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered… — Alfred Marshall
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate… — Thomas Piketty
Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over… — Douglass North
It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run on aggregate demand… — Paul Krugman
America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies. — John McCain
If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real,… — Ken Robinson
It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of… — Joanne Woodward
We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms… — Tim Wirth
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a… — Arthur Compton
Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other… — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented… — Jeffrey Sachs
We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What… — Unknown Author

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