"When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy."

-- Jeff Goodell

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“My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.”
“Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.”

Source : "Trump's Criticism Of Judges Out Of Line With Past Presidents". Interview with Nina Totenberg, kucb.org. February 11, 2017.
“It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.”

Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.114, Macmillan
“Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.”

Source : Walter de la Mare “The Return”, Lulu.com
“I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.”
“At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest.”
“One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.”

Source : Bruce Dawe (1971). “Condolences of the season: selected poems”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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