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George Monbiot has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and…
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...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and…
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Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears…
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Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating…
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It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest…
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When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be…
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The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million…
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Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if…
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Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?
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If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity…
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The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights,…
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The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are…
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He aint in your world you can take em off your atlas
— Drake
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
— Evelyn Waugh
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I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and…
— Andrzej Stasiuk
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Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the…
— Ray Bradbury
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I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
— Clarence Thomas
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Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
— Nancy Mairs
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An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal…
— Murray Rothbard
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On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to…
— Dervla Murphy
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On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to…
— Dervla Murphy
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I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
— Ken Jennings
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There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a…
— Raj Patel
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