"Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs"

-- Jim Clyburn

#Balance Quotes #Environmental Quotes #Needs Quotes

“It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.”

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“Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the livedâ€” what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?”
“In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.”
“I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.”
“My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a family that was very involved with the legal battles against apartheidâ€”the great treason trials in the 1950s and early '60s, and later with the legal resources center that my mother founded. My father was involved with a number of very prominent cases that had political aspects to them, whether it was the inquest into the Sharpeville Massacre, the death of Steve Biko, or one of the trials of Nelson Mandela.”
“I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.”
“One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer.... In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer.”

Source : Adrian Piper (1974). “Talking to Myself: The Ongoing Autobiography of an Art Object”
“If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.”

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