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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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Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
— Thomas Jefferson
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'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of…
— Walter Scott
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman…
— Germaine Greer
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Follow your passion, we’re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it…
— Umair Haque
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I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do…
— Unknown Author
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told…
— Maria Monk
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Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of…
— Robert Bringhurst
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We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop…
— Chris Cleave
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Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature…
— Theodora Goss
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People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew…
— Adriana Trigiani
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The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down…
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