"We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion."

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Source : "Think big on renewables scale" by David J. C. MacKay, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.

David J. C. MacKay

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“Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.”
“Work hard. Believe in yourself. It's not the publicity that sells the clothes, it's the woman.”
“The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.”
“In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.”
“You go through things in life where you're not always going to get what you want, but if God feels it's supposed to happen, it's going to happen.”
“And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory."”
“Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.”
“My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.”

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