"The sixteen hundred dairies in Californiaâ€™s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-thatâ€™s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined."

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Source : Gene Baur (2008). “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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“I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.”
“In promoting Sino-Swiss economic ties, transnational companies, such as Nestle,played an active role.”
“Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia.”
“Personally I am not very self-reliant when it comes to internet and computers.”
“In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion... And we believe that we are entering a technological age in which we will be able to interact with the richness of living information--not merely in the passive way that we have become accustomed to using books and libraries, but as active participants in an ongoing process, bringing something to it through our interaction with it, and not simply receiving something from it by our connection to it.”

Source : "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".
“Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.”
“Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.”

Source : 'Hansard' 3 February 1969, col. 88
“He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.”

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