"we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to……" — Bill McKibben
"we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness."
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61 Quotes by Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben has 61 quotes on this site.
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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around…
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Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to…
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Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it…
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The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.
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There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be…
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Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.
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Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest…
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Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's…
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We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to…
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We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep…
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The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and…
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According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making…
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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid.…
— Coleman Dowell
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Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
— Saadi
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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never…
— Mark Twain
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Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
— James Madison
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God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences,…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain…
— Varlam Shalamov
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The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our…
— William James
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These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact…
— Dick Durbin
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The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.
— Frank Waters
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Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or…
— Thomas Chalmers
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