"You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole."

-- Roscoe Bartlett

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“Every little bit of peace I bring someone is worth the peace I never had.”
“Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.”
“To make every little thing special is to grant a magical quality to your life. Once your life becomes charmed in such a way, whatever blocks you may have experienced in the past melt in the light of that inner energy pouring from your heart. From a businessman's point of view, this is beautiful, for everything you touch turns to gold. Further, it helps you to believe in yourself. In seeing worth all around, you make your every act an affirmation of your strength.”
“Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!”
“The gifts of the Gospel are given to strengthen the faith of the believer.”
“That's what we do when we work in Silicon Valley tech startups: We think about who's going to benefit from this. That's almost the only thing we think about.”

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“The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.”
“If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.”

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