"If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them."

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Source : Address to the House of Lords, November 19, 2010.

Lewis Gordon

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“I still use a lot of cut-ups, I physically cut-up pieces of paper and stick them all together on another piece of paper then I'll think, "Ah, that looks good," or shuffle them around a bit and then I'll photocopy it and then that's my lyrics.”
“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives”
“Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet.”

Source : Joy Hester, Sunday Reed (1997). “Dear Sun: The Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed”
“Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.”
“And all things as they change proclaim The Lord eternally the same.”

Source : Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.237, Ravenio Books
“Africa is not poor, Africa is being looted”
“Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.”

Source : "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 01, 1994.
“I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.”

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