"Good environmentalism is good economics"

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Source : Barber B. Conable (1991). “The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91”

Barber Conable

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“I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.”

Source : "Harriet, The Moses of Her People". Book by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.
“Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.”
“As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.”
“One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.”
“The beginning of my love for football goes back to when I was seven years old. I was spending time with my grandmother, Caletha Vick. I never knew anything about the game until one Sunday afternoon when she turned on the television because the Redskins were playing. They were my Uncle Casey's favorite team-and my grandmother's favorite too. After watching the game with them, I was hooked.”
“If your cat's speaking Latin, you might have a problem.”
“Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.”

Source : YouTube Channel "peta2TV"/"Casey Affleck's Banned 'Go Vegan' PSA", February 06, 2013.
“I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!”

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