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Lester R. Brown has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all…
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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some…
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Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international…
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The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the…
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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of…
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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23…
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply…
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We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce…
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.…
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In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
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Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from…
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One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations…
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Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices,…
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I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution,…
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We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the…
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Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more…
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The Fed is on hold at least through the election but I think we'll get a little more tightening at the start…
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I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not…
— Dara Torres
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
— Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce…
— Oliver Burkeman
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When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to…
— Pema Chodron
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The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the…
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Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and…
— Michael McCaul
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At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.
— Boonaa Mohammed
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