The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. ~Jaron Lanier
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
#quotes #bob-brown #technology #environment

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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The truest success is but the development of self. ~Charles Atlas
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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A hungry man is an angry man. ~English Proverb
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I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on "Hollyoaks." ~Nathalie Emmanuel
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We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season. ~Kim Clijsters
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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