"The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse."

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Source : Attributed to Herman E. Daly in Tristan Clark "Stick This in Your Memory Hole" (p. 19), 2007.

Herman E. Daly

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“Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.”
“In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.”
“Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations. Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger.”
“Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.”
“I'm honored to be at the side of Michele Bachmann. She is a great congresswoman. She is a great human being, and she is a true American patriot.”
“I have a very, very creative family.”
“I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.”
“The Federal Department of Education should be eliminated. The Department of Education is unconstitutional and should not be involved in education, at any level.”

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