Donella Meadows Quotes
Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is being drawn down, soils eroded, forests cut faster than they grow, fish caught faster than they reproduce, non-renewable fossil fuels burnt without developing substitutes.Donella Meadows
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
J. G. Ballard -
I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
Cara Delevingne -
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
Adam Arkin -
Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
Nancy Johnson -
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes -
Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
Edmund Phelps
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
Pamela Stephenson -
I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
Aarti Sequeira -
I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel -
Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
Bashar al-Assad -
I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
Victor LaValle -
In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
Otto Loewi
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
Oliver Evans -
I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
Gabrielle Union -
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
T. S. Eliot -
While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
Yahoo Serious -
Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
Harmony Korine -
The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
Fidel Castro
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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya Angelou -
The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
Hal Duncan -
You pray for yourselves and just ask God to guide you and to give you strength.
Ben Carson -
Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.
Kelley Armstrong -
You've got to have confidence that the universe is working out for you.
Mena Massoud -
Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is being drawn down, soils eroded, forests cut faster than they grow, fish caught faster than they reproduce, non-renewable fossil fuels burnt without developing substitutes.
Donella Meadows