"We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it."

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Source : "Clean Energy is an Easy Choice" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

Jeff Merkley

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“Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.”
“Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.”

Source : "Why people believe weird things". TED conference, www.ted.com. 2006.
“As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.”
“Winning the golden boot is almost what's expected of me.”
“Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.”
“This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the atmosphere, as well as to every nuance of the season, which combine to create perfection.”
“It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.”
“War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.”

Source : William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.20, tredition

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