"Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they are spending on projects to promote clean energy. This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources."

-- Jose Angel Gurria

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“When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan
“There's this Ryan Gosling quote that I steal all the time - I watched an interview with him in Cannes - and he said picking roles is like listening to songs on the radio: There can be a lot of really great songs in a row, but then one comes on that just makes you want to dance.”
“As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.”
“My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.”
“I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?”
“Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.”

Source : Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.
“Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.”
“In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.”

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