"Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections."

-- Peter DeFazio

#Years Quotes #Oil Quotes #America Quotes

“Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.”
“The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.”
“This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle and to fight for the common interest, to wield the power of brain and good right arm if need be for one's family, for the ordered community of life, for the state, for moral principles, humanity, and the common good.”
“For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it.”
“The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2014). “The Firebird”, p.190, Simon and Schuster
“Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.”
“One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil!”

Source : "Terry McAuliffe’s Green America: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Natalia Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2011.
“It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance of the superstitious observances that go with it, that we should want others to share it - and the only certain way to cause a religious belief to be held by everyone is to liquidate nonbelievers. The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religion has brought to a few has been too great to justify our entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief.”

Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

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