Quote by Jeff Goodell
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-in

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. – Jeff Goodell

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In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. – Jeff Goodell

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alone
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Americans dont pay much attention to environmental issues, because they arent sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesnt get anybodys pulse racing. – Jeff Goodell

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environmental
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Bloombergs $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently. – Jeff Goodell

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But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say its virtually impossible. Its very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms. – Donald Trump

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Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home. – Marco Rubio

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I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on. – William Hague

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Business

Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply wont be got rid of. – Anita Brookner

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Business

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The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just dont trust the entrepreneurs ability to grow her own business and to create jobs. – Sher Valenzuela

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A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life. – Allen Johnson, The Historian and Historical Evidence

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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. – John Adams

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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. – George Eliot

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