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" I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything. "
Jaime Lerner
You
Run
Me
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" You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. "
Bob Dylan
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Death
" We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. "
David Sarnoff
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" Definitely one of the biggest influences on my music is the music that Ben Gibbard's associated with, so Death Cab and The Postal Service. "
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" Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death. "
Barry Jenkins
You
World
Life And Death
" I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. "
William Shakespeare
Death
Nothing
Rust
" The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members. "
Martin O'Malley
Death
Death Penalty
Family
" I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. "
Francis Bacon
Death
Man
Only
" In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. "
Tom Robbins
Seattle
Aesthetic
Death
" Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. "
Gloria Swanson
Life And Death
Mixed
Death
" Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. "
Tryon Edwards
Heaven
Death
Reunion
" I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. "
Carlos Fuentes
Death
Me
Create
" Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. "
Jose Marti
Fire
Hatred
Others
" I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable. "
Eugene H. Peterson
Think
You
Pastor
" If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. "
Thomas Aquinas
Death
Power
Much
" The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die. "
Jaime Lerner
Work
Leisure
Die
" What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. "
Zane Grey
Me
Suicide
Life
" Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. "
Alvar N. C. de Vaca
Sea
Trust
Water
" I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.' "
Jaime Lerner
Environment
Car
Garbage
" Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. "
Marina Abramovic
Creativity
Death
Greatness
" We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. "
Robert Falcon Scott
Great
Death
Journey
" Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act. "
Lynsey Addario
World
Eyes
Death
" Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. "
John Keats
Sea
Great
Ever
" Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. "
George Eliot
Music
Pain
Death
" I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. "
Woody Allen
I Am
Happens
Death
" We live in a world where black people are targeted for death and destruction, and we should not be surprised when moments such as these occur - in fact, Charlottesville confirms the violence that black people endure every day. "
Patrisse Cullors
Black
People
Live
" The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. "
Sun Tzu
War
Art
Death
" I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy. "
Cedric Richmond
Death
Hurricane
Never Forget
" Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. "
Ezekiel Emanuel
Death
Great
Child
" Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything. "
Jaime Lerner
Bureaucracy
Like
Everything
" The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us. "
Clint Smith
Death
Death Penalty
Us