"By 2030 the demand for resources will create a crisis with dire consequences. Demand for food and energy will jump 50% by 2030 and for fresh water by 30%, as the population tops 8.3 billion"

-- John Beddington

#Water Quotes #Energy Quotes #Population Quotes

“I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.”
“It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.”
“O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.”

Source : Sarah Trimmer (1825). “Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer: With Original Letters, and Meditations and Prayers, Selected from Her Journal”, p.117
“I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.”

Source : "The Rev Ian Paisley obituary" by Derek Brown and Owen Bowcott, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2014.
“The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.”

Source : Olive Schreiner (2014). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.92, Read Books Ltd
“I just feel my sexuality is private. I'm very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I've sold millions of records with my clothes on.”
“We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.”

Source : Frank Bidart (2017). “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016”, p.275, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.”

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