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We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
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Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public…
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If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because…
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Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.
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Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on…
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I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large…
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I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or…
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In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic…
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Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good…
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We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.
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Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes…
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By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get…
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Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good…
— Amory Lovins
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the…
— J. William Fulbright
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Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.
— Sven Birkerts
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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
— Andrew Motion
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What was once a tiny seed of belief for me has grown into the tree of life, so if your faith is…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
— John F. Kennedy
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Animals are not just other species. They are other nations. And we murder them at our peril. The peace map is drawn…
— Philip Wollen
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General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it…
— C. V. Wedgwood
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
— Voltaire
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It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them…
— Robert Fulghum
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.
— Voltaire
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