"To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death."

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Source : Paul Driessen (2003). “Eco-imperialism: Green Power, Black Death”, Merril Press

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“People feel that drama is more important. Dramas always earn more honors than comedy.”
“I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach.”

Source : "The Recognitions". Book by William Gaddis, "Anselm", p. 457, 1955.
“The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.”
“I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.”
“Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.”

Source : Patricia Wentworth (2016). “The Miss Silver Mysteries: Grey Mask, The Case Is Closed, and Lonesome Road”, p.361, Open Road Media
“We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste.”
“A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.”
“The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.”

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