"For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the environmental front. After all, the data is so compelling! I thought that if people just understood the severity of today's environmental threats and knew about available solutions, those solutions would happen. Not so."

-- Annie Leonard

#Data Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #People Quotes

“Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.”
“For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.”
“There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.”
“That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.”
“Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.”
“I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.”
“The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.”
“Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it.”

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