"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."

-- Evelyn Waugh

#Vocabulary Quotes #Names Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call for a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed.”

Source : Sandra Postel (1985). “Conserving water: the untapped alternative”, Worldwatch Inst
“Maybe I feel like I'm writing songs that don't need to be saved or made more interesting by endless overdubs and studio tricks...maybe - remember, where I am with songwriting I have never been before - sparkly guitars and overdubs I've done (and will do again - see instrumental record in above answer)”
“It's no fun watching you disintegrate. Where is the old "I Love Myself" mantra? You need to feel you are indeed lovable and that your life matters. Listen. The birds are singing your name.”
“I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire.”
“Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.”

Source : Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”
“You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.”

Source : Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.391, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Thank you for that experience.”
“In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves.”

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