"We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons."

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Source : "Letters", www.nytimes.com. February 18, 1979.

Russell E. Train

#Opportunity Quotes #Environmental Quotes #Energy Quotes

“I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid.”
“age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press
“I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and grants us these remarkable minds, in order that we try to reach for it. It wants us to find it. It wants union with us, more than anything.”
“Planning allows you to mentally create a model of your future.”
“It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?”
“I think the obstacles are the same as the opportunities, is the way we like to look at them.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
“Restrict bankruptcy rules.”
“If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.”

Source : Forty Modern Fables (1901) p. 218

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