E. O. Wilson Quotes
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.E. O. Wilson
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I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.
Karen Salmansohn -
People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.
Vince Cable -
Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
Barry Ritholtz -
Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.
Victor Ponta -
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
Edith Widder -
Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
Victoria Principal -
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
Galen Rowell -
Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.
Pallam Raju -
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
Orison Swett Marden -
The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.
Beau Garrett -
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.
Wendy Davis -
Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.
Francesca da Rimini -
My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.
Abigail Washburn -
What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
Naomi Klein -
All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.
Victor Ponta
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Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.
Ben Parr -
I think all of us know that what we went through in the last half of the Nineties is not sustainable. We're going to need to adjust ourselves to a period of more normal growth. How we think about managing our businesses in that environment is the tricky question we're all grappling with.
Henry Paulson -
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky -
I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
Vidya Balan -
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
Taylor Caldwell -
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
E. O. Wilson