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Thomas Homer-Dixon

"Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production."

Source : "The Tar Sands Disaster". www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2013.

Thomas Homer-Dixon

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“I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.”
“With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.”
“The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.”
“The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.”
“I think there seems to be a need for escapism at the moment. Maybe that's the type of world we're living in. It's a sanctuary, in a way, where you can immerse yourself in something that doesn't exist, whether that's TV shows or comic books or novels. it's not solely down to magic and vampires - that's in at the moment. but escapism, being a part of other worlds, is very good for you.”

Source : "Magical Sci-Fantasy 'Merlin' Catches Fire in Season 3". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. January 7, 2011.
“Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery, whooping cough, measles, loss of virility, and bed-wetting ... Though nobody seems to advertise the potential for pearls to cure bed-wetting anymore.”

Source : Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.84, Ballantine Books
“My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.”
“In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All Stars band together. It's actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I've put that together...more and more realizing that's what I do.”

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