"There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy……" — Denis Hayes
"There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity,"
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20 Quotes by Denis Hayes
Denis Hayes has 20 quotes on this site.
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Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.
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I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.
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America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question…
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By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity…
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The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire…
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An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far…
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It is already too late to avoid mass starvation
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We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.
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We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our…
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These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists,
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We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago,…
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The easiest way to make something cool is to get cool people to do it. Part of this might mean…
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More Acceptance Quotes
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one of 2,150 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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