"It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history"

-- Margaret Beckett

#Facts Quotes #Natural Quotes #Century Quotes

“I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.”
“It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in a way that I can't really explain.”
“For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.”
“Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.”
“One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would be only skin-deep. Popular culture often provides a window into the subliminal or unstated fears of citizens, and zombies are no exception. Some cultural commentators argue that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are a primary cause for renewed interest in the living dead, and the numbers appear to back up this assertion.”
“People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.”
“From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments,.”
“As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose their moral connection to it. Laws will seem more like revenue traps and shakedowns. The state will start to seem more like another extortion racket, and, as in Mexico, people will have a harder time telling the good guys from the bad guys.”

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