"Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere."

-- Tim Jackson

#Commodity Prices Quotes #Rights Quotes #Fishing Quotes

“My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.”
“As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.”
“Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.”
“I was seeing this girl and she wanted to get more serious. But I wasn't ready to, I had just gotten out of a difficult relationship before that. So I said to her, 'Listen, you have to understand something. Relationships are like eyebrows. It's better when there's a space between them.' And that's coming from a Greek guy.”
“Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.”
“I donâ€™t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.”
“I was battling depression, went through a really hard time in my marriage, and I used to cry myself to sleep. I went through years and years of pain and suffering, and finally got help. I feel so much better now, feel like a new person, so now I can be happy about it.”

Source : "Maureen McCormick: 'I hit rock bottom'". TODAY interview, www.today.com. October 14, 2008.
“Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.”

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