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So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don't even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without plentiful oil would look like. Reality has become too dangerous.
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Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.
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It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
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If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
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Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
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Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.
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The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.
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What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.
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I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
