"Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand."

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Edward Abbey

#Real Quotes #America Quotes #Earth Quotes

“It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.”

Source : John Hersey (1960). “The Child Buyer”
“If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?”
“In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.”
“I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't expect success. I prepare for it.”
“He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as I could, and I never wanted to go back, because to me it is a great privilege to be an American citizen.”

Source : Source: theanarchistlibrary.org
“The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.”

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