"There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water."

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Source : Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich (1991). “The population explosion”, Touchstone Books

Paul R. Ehrlich

#Oil Quotes #Water Quotes #Substitutes Quotes

“The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone.”
“Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made”
“People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.”
“Life it too short to deal with crazy people.”
“In any show with a character that you really love, one inclination is to cure them of all their flaws but you remember that you like those flaws.”
“Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.”
“Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.”

Source : "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.
“Accidental stacks considered harmful.”

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