"Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy."

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Source : "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

Jay Griffiths

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“Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.”
“Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.”
“I realized that the secret to golf isn't how low you shoot when it's going good, it's how to make your bad rounds better.”
“I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.”
“Blindness brought with it a million adjustments and losses and emotions. But, there really was this unshakeable sense, deep within me, that God had already prepared me for the darkness. And he did it through his Word.”

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“I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.”

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“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”
“He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.”

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