"Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life."

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Source : " After this 60-year feeding frenzy, Earth itself has become disposable" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2010.

George Monbiot

#Nature Quotes #Progress Quotes #Speed Quotes

“For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.”
“There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.”
“All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.”
“How can you be sure?" "I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist." "Does that make you an authority on everything? What about a soul, Father? When you were so busy implanting all your neural chips, did you think about that? Did you snip my soul from my old body, too? Where did you put it? Show me! Where? Where in all this groundbreaking technology did you insert my soul?”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.129, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
“If you want to talk about it, I got the time When you're looking so enchanted, you cover my mind If you think I'll wait forever, maybe you're right There's no such thing as now or never, there's only twilight”

Source : Song: Something To Grab For
“But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.”
“Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (1992). “Lucky Jim”, Penguin Classics
“You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.”

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