"...if we all turned down the thermostat in our house by just one degree, we would save over Â£650 million worth of energy and nearly nine million tonnes of carbon emissions every year. That would be the equivalent of taking three million cars off our roads...we can bring about a Green Consumer Revolution in this country to improve our lives, enrich our economy and protect our environment."

-- David Cameron

#Country Quotes #Years Quotes #Car Quotes

“Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.”
“There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.”
“There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now”
“I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.633, Simon and Schuster
“The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.”

Source : Andrew Marr (2009). “A History of Modern Britain”, p.268, Pan Macmillan
“However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise.”
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
“We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.”

Source : Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.303

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