Quotes about "Climate & Sustainability"

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living. ”

Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself. ”

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. ”

I wanted to make a comfortable living and raise a family, and that's what I did. ”

Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies. ”

All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold. ”

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds. ”

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. ”

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia. ”

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart. ”