"A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place"

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Source : "An End to Sweet Illusions" by Bill McKibben, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2002.

Bill McKibben

#Running Quotes #Future Quotes #Long Quotes

“My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.
“I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.”
“The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.”
“A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.”
“When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!”
“Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.”
“Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.6, Ardent Media
“Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.”

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