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Daniel Yergin has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave.…
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The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian…
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Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.
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In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to…
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So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment…
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People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200…
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The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.
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The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources.
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The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it…
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In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55…
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According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result…
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We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the…
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,…
— Chinua Achebe
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because…
— Chinua Achebe
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly…
— Chinua Achebe
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The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can…
— Chinua Achebe
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
— Sade Adu
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I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.
— Patience Jonathan
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of…
— Olusegun Obasanjo
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The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create…
— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but…
— Mia Farrow
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I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to…
— Hugo Weaving
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