Quote by Jeff Goodell
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. – Jeff Goodell

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But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid. – Jeff Goodell

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Success
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Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? – Jeff Goodell

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environmental
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In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. – Jeff Goodell

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Government
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. – George Orwell

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power

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you arent. – Margaret Thatcher

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power

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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power

A word after a word after a word is power. – Margaret Atwood

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power

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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity. – Jos

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Surprise

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. – William Cowper

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Truth

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. – Marshall McLuhan

Category:
communication

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Honesty