"Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow."

-- Lester R. Brown

#Oil Quotes #Issues Quotes #Water Quotes

“Humility is always proof of intelligence”
“No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.”
“A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence.”

Source : Otto Weininger (1907). “Sex & Character”
“Women should be someone and not something.”

Source : Griselda Pollock, Mary Cassatt (2005). “Mary Cassatt”, Chaucer Pr
“Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves.”
“A brand is a personâ€™s gut feeling about a product, service or organization”
“That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.”
“Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.”

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