"Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash."

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Alfred W. Crosby

#Population Quotes #Crash Quotes #Climate Change Quotes

“I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.”
“The fact that some former national security officials challenge the policy wisdom of the order, while other national security officials - most notably those of this [Donald Trump's] administration - support it, merely demonstrates that these are policy disputes that the judiciary is both ill-equipped and constitutionally barred from arbitrating.”

Source : "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". Interview with James Downie, www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.
“A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.”
“You shape your own destiny.”
“One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.”
“Be ye a refuge to the fearful; bring ye rest and peace to the disturbed; make ye a provision for the destitute; be a treasury of riches for the poor; be a healing medicine for those who suffer pain; be ye doctor and nurse to the ailing; promote ye friendship, and honour, and conciliation, and devotion to God, in this world of non-existence.”
“I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer”
“The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1847). “Notes from Life, in six essays”, p.12

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