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• If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

  Barry Commoner

  Agriculture, Energy, Answers

  "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.

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• What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Friendship, Real, Funny Friend

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• The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.

  Alfred Rupert Hall

  Real, Esoteric, Grain

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• I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, Skills, People

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• We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

  Andrew Stanton

  Fall, Phones, Cells

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• I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things - if it's a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal. We've got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.

  William J. Clinton

  Giving Up, Thinking, Political

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• Every once in a while, a great nation has to deal with a great issue. Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Men, Issues

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• [Polythene Pam] was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave us our first exposure - this is so long - you can't deal with all this. You see, everything triggers amazing memories. I met him when we were on tour and he took me back to his apartment and I had a girl and he had one he wanted me to meet. He said she dressed up in polythene, which she did. She didn't wear jackboots and kilts, I just sort of elaborated. Perverted sex in a polythene bag. Just looking for something to write about.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Sex, Memories

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• Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Reality, Two

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)

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• It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.

  Alpana Singh

  Wine, Ice, Missing

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• Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Ideas, Saint

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet's future.

  Fred Krupp

  Ocean, Marine, Sea

  Miriam Horn, Fred Krupp (2009). “Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Daughter, Mother, School

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• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose. There's no evidence that more people with more skills would produce more jobs. There's a great deal of evidence that they produce more competition for the jobs that exist, and in turn, drive down the cost of labour. Nothing pleases a corporation more than having five people compete for the same job. Competitiveness means good times for machines, not workers, because our tax systems privilege machines over workers.A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.

  Eric Reguly

  Jobs, Mean, Hard Work

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• The military profession, especially in the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well under stress. Professional officers are trained to think in terms of emergent threats, and this [climate change] is as big a threat as you are going to find. Never mind what the pundits are telling the public about the perils of climate change; what are the military strategists telling their governments? That will tell us a great deal about the probable shape of the future, although it may not tell us anything that we want to hear.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Country, Stress, Military

  "Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats". Book by Gwynne Dyer, 2008.

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• But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.

  Manuel De Landa

  Information Processing, Decision, Events

  Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)

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• We have to use our freedoms and privileges to see what respite we can give to those less equipped to deal with their challenges.

  Chloe Hooper

  Giving, Challenges, Use

  Chloe Hooper (2009). “Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Excellence is a process, not just an outcome. Sure, we have to hold out for high standards in the products or services we provide. The goods must be more than "good enough." But so must our approach - you know, our methodology, the way we do business and deal with people. How could the ends be considered excellent if we can't be proud of the means?

  Price Pritchett

  Business, Mean, People

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• Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

  Phil McGraw

  Motivational, Jobs, Husband

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

  Marian Bantjes

  Successful, Design, Exception

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• Yo, it's 1 universal law but 2 sides to every story,
  3 strikes and you be in for life, mandatory.
  4 MC's murdered in the last 4 years,
  I ain't tryin to be the 5th one, the Millennium is here.
  Yo, it's 6 million ways to die, from the 7 deadly thrills,
  8-year olds gettin' found with 9 mill's.
  It's 10 P.M., where your seeds at? What's the deal?

  Mos Def

  Rap, Years, Law

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• On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal,
  When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.

  Nas

  Rap, Hip Hop, Revolution

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• Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed

  Big Sean

  Mad, Hip Hop, Email

  Song: Burn

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• I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Winning, Order, America

  Speech to Democratic Convention in Chicago, 2 July 1932, accepting nomination for presidency, in Public Papers (1938) vol. 1, p. 647

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• With all of the history of war, and the human race's history unfortunately has been a good deal more war than peace, with nuclear weapons distributed all through the world, and available, and the strong reluctance of any people to accept defeat, I see the possibility in the 1970's of the President of the United States having to face a world in which 15 or 20 or 25 nations may have these weapons.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, War, Race

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.280, Best Books on

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