"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable."

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Source : "Agenda 21: The U.N.'s Earth Summit Has Its Head In The Clouds" by Larry Bell, www.forbes.com. June 14, 2011.

Maurice Strong

#Air Quotes #Class Quotes #Use Quotes

“Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.”
“The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.”
“It's not about finding out who you are, it's about creating who you are.”
“Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.”
“Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.”
“What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.”
“I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.”

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