"If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing our country before midcentury - probably in your own lifetime."

-- Joseph J. Romm

#Country Quotes #Climate Quotes #Delay Quotes

“When I was 14-15 years old I was able to earn a little money from time to time but I'm not complaining since, very soon I could provide a normal living. I was discovered also by other musicians and they asked me to work with them. Even in my early age several well-known artists asked for my services both on the stage and in the studio. This experience proved to be very useful, musicians showed me various musical situations and various music experiments.”
“Hanajima, my spear! Bring me my spear!”
“On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.”
“True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.”

Source : Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.61, Sasquatch Books
“If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?”
“The worst part about people with bad personalities is they don't know it.”
“His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cercei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted.”
“I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.”

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