"A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It will be required sooner if we are to hold the risks of climate change to acceptable levels. The costs that we bear in making an early adjustment will bring forward, and reduce for future times, the costs of the inevitable eventual adjustment away from fossil fuels."

-- Ross Garnaut

#Change Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Risk Quotes

“I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.”
“As individuals, we have to act independently of the politics at hand. I don't feel an added responsibility to do anything more beyond being who I've always been and acting decently. I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.”
“If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.”
“Beyond all experience is the one who is experiencing. Beyond all change is the One who never changes.”
“Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the ***** that we're addicted to, it's the drama of the life, the chaos of it, that's the real addiction and we never get over it; and because when you come down to it, the high life, that is, the intoxicated life, is the best of the limited options offered.”
“Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.”
“I'm inspired to write songs by all kinds of things. Good sex with a good man, that might inspire a song. Bad sex - that might inspire a different kind of song.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, believermag.com. July 1, 2010.
“People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.”

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