"Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation."

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Source : Commonwealth Club of San Francisco Speech, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

Paul Hawken

#Powerful Quotes #Degradation Quotes #Today Quotes

“Ignoring expectations makes you look at the world in a fresh way.”
“You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space.”

Source : Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”
“The Truth is the only thing youâ€™ll ever run into that has no agenda.”
“There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!”
“I am in awe, in admiration of the man who Gaius Julius Caesar was. I don't actually do him as the man himself. He is maybe a distant relative. It's hard to approach the real man because he is such an awesome icon.”
“I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.”
“There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.”

Source : Joe R. Lansdale (2010). “Mucho Mojo: A Hap and Leonard Novel (2)”, p.101, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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