"The climate crowd did a lousy job communicating. Several reports have itemized the fact that over a billion dollars was spent on climate by the environmental side over the past decade. There is simply no excuse for the failure to communicate."

-- Randy Olson

#Past Quotes #Environmental Quotes #No Excuses Quotes

“Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.”
“Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.”
“As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.”

Source : "The Rumpus interview with Jill Sobule". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. July 30, 2009.
“The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low”
“The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Letâ€™s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.”
“My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.”
“I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.”
“Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.”

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