"Everything we personally own thatâ€™s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that weâ€™re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf."

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Source : Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.90, Penguin

Yvon Chouinard

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“And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.”

Source : Eugene O'Neill (1951). “Plays: "Anna Christie." Beyond the horizon. The Emperor Jones. The hairy ape. The great god Brown. The straw. Dynamo. Days without end. The iceman cometh”
“The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.”
“I dwell no more in Arcady, But when the sky is blue with May, And birds are blithe and winds are free, I know what message is for me, For I have been in Arcady.”

Source : Louise Chandler Moulton (1908). “The Poems and Sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton ...”
“It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.”
“He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses.”
“Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.”
“Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.”

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