John Guillebaud famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environments, and appropriate contraception for everyone...doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.
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Should we now explain to UK couples who plan a family that stopping at two children, or at least having one less than first intended, is the simplest and biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet for our grandchildren?
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Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet
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The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights. The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.
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The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.
-- John Guillebaud
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There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.
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I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
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He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.
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I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
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The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.
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Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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