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I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat). Charles Stross
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Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more. Jeff Goodell
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We want to send an Amazon securities employee out to his home to collect whatever materials he has. This is an important issue for us. Patti Smith
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With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now. Gregory Asner
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Wonder Woman isn't even American; she's an Amazon princess. Jim Lee
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I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books. John Grisham
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage. Candice Millard
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Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way. Edan Lepucki
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Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
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The external environment continues to be very difficult, ... We have continued to reduce our capacity to match demand from our customers, improved our operations and began to realign staff resources to better our financial results.
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When I entered the Manhattan School of Music, I felt great pressure living and studying away from home. Then I began to compose pieces, like writing diaries. Each piece is inspired by my own experience or the true stories of friends around.
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When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe. Sharon Kay Penman
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I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids. Stephan Pastis
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The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me. Aasif Mandvi
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Physicists explain creation by telling us that the universe began with the Big Bang, an intense energy singularity that continued expanding. But who created the singularity? Ashwin Sanghi
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The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on. Ted Chiang
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I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously. Tom Curren
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We know we couldn't hold the great start we began with. But we must start playing how we did in those first few games.
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When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that. Carlos Castaneda
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If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile...To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
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To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.
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Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.
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There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.
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A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.
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The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
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When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.' Stacy Schiff
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin
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The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. William Gass
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Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity. Francis Parkman
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Think about a descent from top to the bottom. Verne Lundquist
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I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right. Alan Lee
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We've been everywhere around Northwest. I was biking until the clouds came. We'll go in the woods, we'll go up and down the river. I love the woods in Sandy, but it's an hour away, so I don't love that. David Giuntoli
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You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done. David R. Brower
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Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.
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There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.
rivers safe lasts
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. Buffalo Bill
rivers ambitious limits
The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits. Cesar Pelli
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When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements. Vandana Shiva
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money. Chief Seattle
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Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? Charles Caleb Colton
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When you get to shootouts, it comes down to who has the most talent. Usually the team with the most talent wins. We have a lot of talent on this team and we're pretty talented up front.
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Trust the tale, not the teller. David Knopfler
talent certainty
I have no talent for certainty. Jane Austen
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There are so many young women who throw their talent away. Britt Ekland
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Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle. Brett Favre
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Don't teach talent that isn't there. Barbara Corcoran
talent humans
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express. Brenda Ueland
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I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent. Calvin Trillin
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We usually end up crying. He tells us not to be scared.
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Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar. Luis Suarez
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If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level. Richard Carmona
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Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs. Joanna Lumley
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When someone tells me how they feel when they see something I've done and they want to live with it, that's the best,
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We had 24 turnovers and they turned them into 26 points, so I think that pretty much tells the story of the game." () Mike McConathy
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No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love. Anna Held
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No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.
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The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children. Marvin Sapp
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Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof. Carl Edwards
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A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. [] Carl Friedrich Gauss
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We have much work ahead, to stand still.
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When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest. Chris Garza
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We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.
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We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.
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Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning. Aaron Tveit
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I'm working myself to death. Alan Ladd
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We've still got a lot of work to do. Kim Delaney