"We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environments, and appropriate contraception for everyone...doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars."

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Source : "Limit families to two children 'to combat climate change'". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 24, 2008.

John Guillebaud

#Doctors Quotes #Car Quotes #People Quotes

“The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.”

Source : 1954 An Autobiography, ch.1.
“Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.”
“I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.”
“Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly, without question, even when everyone else is questioning how good (or sane) they are.”
“Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.”
“My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.”
“You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.”

Source : Louis Sachar (2013). “Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Greenlake”, p.20, A&C Black
“If left alone in labor, the body of a woman produces most easily the baby that is not interfered with by its mother's mind or the assistant's hand. If left alone, just courage and patience are required.”

Source : Grantly Dick-Read (2006). “Childbirth Without Fear”, p.371, Pollinger in Print

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