"I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate."

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Source : "Go green: have fewer kids, says environmentalist" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2009.

Jonathon Porritt

#Children Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.”
“Todd, this is almost like your commentary! Dizzying!”
“Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.”
“The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.”

Source : Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult
“With so much drama in the L-B-C, It's kinda hard bein Snoop D-O-double-G”

Source : Song: Gin And Juice
“A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the "Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act," was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby's shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week. Don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting that the name of that one piece of legislation somehow led to the horror of this weekend - but is it really necessary to put the word "killing" in the title of a major piece of legislation?”

Source : "For Gabby’s Sake, Republicans Should Change the Name of Their Health Care Repeal Bill" by Chellie Pingree, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 09, 2011.
“Focus is more valuable than IQ.”
“Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.”

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