"Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses."

-- Maurice Strong

#Numbers Quotes #Development Quotes #Accepted Quotes

“Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but the pay packet on Friday and the booze-up last Saturday. Life's easy when you're a robot.”
“Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.”
“It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.”
“Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.”
“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”
“No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.”

Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1965). “the Oxford History of the American People \”
“I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.”

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