"History is an illogical record. It hinges on……" — Gretel Ehrlich
"History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars."
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Gretel Ehrlich
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22 Quotes by Gretel Ehrlich
Gretel Ehrlich has 22 quotes on this site.
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To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history…
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Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.
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Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
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From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick.…
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The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought:…
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The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair.…
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Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid…
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Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean,…
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Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.
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I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think…
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Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.
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Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile…
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More Accidents Quotes
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
— Aristotle
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
— Saint Augustine
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
— Lauren Bacall
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and…
— Neal Barnard
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
— Dave Barry
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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