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Ted Nordhaus

"The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years of the 21st Century. They had built institutions filled with lawyers and scientists well suited to lobby policy makers who basically shared their world view. This worked well when liberals controlled the Congress and much of the federal bureaucracy, and when the politics of the time were more supportive of active government efforts to regulate the economy and clean up the environment."

-- Ted Nordhaus

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“The shoulder surgery was a success. The lobotomy failed.”
“What is this eternity to me without you?What is the infinity of my domains?Empty ringing words,A spacious temple - without a divinity!”

Source : "The Demon". Poem by Mikhail Lermontov, 1830.
“I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'”
“I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of people and you have a common goal, that's an exciting time. The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business. In my opinion young bands have a shelf life and it ranges in time.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“You can register a political objection in a number of ways.”
“Discipline is a choice. It's simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.”
“We areÂ all creators. Whether orÂ not weÂ create isÂ not upÂ to us. WeÂ are human, andÂ creating isÂ what weÂ do. Every interaction, movement, andÂ decision isÂ creativity atÂ work. WeÂ are allÂ artists. WeÂ all order creation around usÂ into theÂ world that weÂ want toÂ make.”
“Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple wives are generally reserved for a relatively few men who can afford them or qualify via formal rank. For eons and eons, most marriages have been monogamous, even though most societies haven't been”

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