"Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?"

-- Charles Stross

#Running Quotes #Wall Quotes #Real Quotes

“All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?”
“The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.”

Source : "Why Are the Republicans Such Anti-Obama Liars?". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 01, 2009.
“Successfully reframing the climate debate in the United States from one based on environmental values to one based on health values...holds great promise to help American society better understand and appreciate the risks of climate change...”
“I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.”
“We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.”
“Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.”
“One time we were having dinner and some guy came by and took a potato off of Frank Sinatra's plate. And Frank said, â€œHey pal, are you hungry?â€ The guy says, â€œyeah.â€ Frank said, â€œSit down.â€ And he gave him his dinner. I thought for sure there was gonna be trouble from the guys surrounding Frank, but Frank says, â€œJeez, relax, the man's hungry.â€”
“Something is being released in the spiritual realm, when it does go to the phone. When the mantle gets passed to you go to the phone and sow a $70 tithe to the $700 pledge.”

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