"We desperately need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism."

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Source : "Planet Savers : 301 Extraordinary Environmentalists". Book by Kevin Desmond, 2008.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#Technology Quotes #People Quotes #Cost Quotes

“But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.”
“Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.”

Source : Rebecca Skloot (2011). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.204, Pan Macmillan
“Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.”
“Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.”

Source : Lisa See (2011). “Peony in Love”, p.258, A&C Black
“Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.”
“I like to be in my birthday suit as much as possible.”
“I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.”
“I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. Its something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!”

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