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TheEnglishLanguage'Leverage' is not a verb. Quotes: "A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground" Ernest Shackleton Attractive sales lady at a department store: What can I do for you, Mr. Dowd? Elwood P. Dowd: What did you have in mind? 'Harvey' - Universal Studios, 1950 "If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing." John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider". If you give me six sentences written by the most innocent of men,I will find something in them with which to hang him." Cardinal Richelieu 1585-1642 "I wish we had a tame cormorant" said Titty. "We've got fishing rods" said John. ('Swallows and Amazons' - Arthur Ransome 1885-1967) Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin "Those were the days when the world was a solid mass of beavers. I shall keep my eye open for something that looks like a burst horsehair sofa, and that will be Clam." 'Uncle Percy' in PG Wodehouse 'Joy in the Morning'. "When the civilised World-Market coveted a country not yet in its clutches, some transparent pretext was found - the suppression of a slavery different from and not so cruel as that of commerce; the pushing of a religion no longer believed in by its promoters; the "rescue" of some desperado or homocidal madman whose misdeeds had got him into trouble amongst the natives of the "barbarous" country - any stick, in short, which would beat the dog at all." Hammond - "News from Nowhere", Wm Morris. "Is nothing thrown away in your time?" "Thrown away where? The world is round." 'Woman on the edge of time' - Marge Piercy "Eat when you're hungry, sleep where it's dry, no one is what they seem" Gabriel King - The Wild Road "If you can't fuck it and it doesn't dance, eat it or throw it away" Pat Cadigan - Synners "The opinion of ten thousand men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject." Marcus Aurelius "Them as can do, has to do for those as can't. And someone has to speak for them as has no voices". 'Granny Aching' in Terry Pratchetts 'The Wee Free Men'. "You know, wind turbines make energy use visible. Fossil fuels distribute the cost of energy use in the most subtle and universal form... throughout the atmosphere. The ugliness is everywhere, but so distributed that we can't see it with our naked eye..." Oregon7 of theoildrum.com "The energy supply growth that would have taken care of all this debt never came." Alan Greenspan "Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible" T E Lawrence - The Seven Pillars of Wisdom The scary thing is, though they ignore a lot of the happy stuff, the newspackers don't make up any of the misery. It's all REAL. 'mayflies' - kevin o'donnell jr |