"First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the oldest in Europe - is costing us the earth... After transport, heating is the second biggest driver of energy demand in Britain. British Gas research suggests that householders who put in energy efficiency measures cut their gas consumption by 44%. Better insulated buildings will do much of the work for us."

-- Chris Huhne

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“Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.”
“When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.”
“Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.”
“POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.”
“The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply”
“I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.”
“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
“Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from a complete history of his country during the long period in which he was the most prominent actor.”

Source : Jared Sparks (1853). “The life of George Washington”, p.6

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