"If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today."

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Source : Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks (2013). “Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy”, p.58, Island Press

Jay Inslee

#Oil Quotes #Progress Quotes #Climate Quotes

“I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.”
“I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.”
“The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.”

Source : Charles Tennyson Turner, James Spedding (1880). “Collected Sonnets, Old and New”
“This may sound crazy, but to love someone so much that their happiness comes before yours; to find someone who wants to be with you as much as you want to be with them is a wonderfully amazing thing. The catch? It's a two-way street, a balancing act. Both must feel the same way or it falls apart. Once found, however, well, my friend, I believe you just found Heaven on Earth.”
“Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking's writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?”
“Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.”

Source : Statement to the Volksgerichtshof [People's Court] of Judge Roland Freisler, February 21, 1943.
“What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?”
“The voice of the people, the voice of God.”

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