"One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Jerome Ringo

#Color Quotes #Issues Quotes #People Quotes

“It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.”
“I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.”
“If you don't get a laugh I immediately think it's somebody else's fault. You can always blame the material. But when it's just yourself and songs that you've picked up because you love them and stories that you've written yourself and patter you think is really funny if that tanks, there's no one to blame it on. God knows, I try!”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.”
“There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.”

Source : Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.88, PublicAffairs
“There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.”
“Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.”

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