"Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies."

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Source : Twitter post from Mar 20, 2014

Scott Westerfeld

#Ideas Quotes #Oil Quotes #Environmental Quotes

“If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.”

Source : "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". Interview with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.
“Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice all the time. Provoke the reader. Astonish the reader. Writing that has no surprises is as bland as oatmeal. Surprise the reader with the unexpected verb or adjective. Use one startling adjective per page.”
“The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”
“Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.”
“The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.”

Source : David Rosenfelt (2011). “One Dog Night: An Andy Carpenter Novel”, p.99, Minotaur Books
“Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.”

Source : "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.
“It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.”
“In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens."”

Source : "Amanda Schull: Fate intervened with 'Center Stage'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. August 9, 2010.

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