“It disguises it’s thoughts as your thoughts, it’s feelings with your feelings, you think it’s you.” Quote by Leonard Jacobson
“So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes greater than the energy content of the oil, production will cease no matter what the monetary price may be.” MayLongMatterUsedEnergyGreaterSourceCostNo Matter WhatProductionsOilCeaseMonetaryBarrelsRecoveringOil Production Author:M. King Hubbert
“Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.” TwoProblemLastsCultureGrowthKnownCenturyAmountDependentStabilityPrincipalIncapableParallelsConstraintsReckoningContinuanceExponential Growth Author:M. King Hubbert
“If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.” IfsPlanningBrokeMaking Money Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothing that has happened in all of geologic history. The world will only tolerate so many doublings of anything -- whether it's power plants or grasshoppers.” WorldYearsHumansGrowthKnownHappenedPlantPopulationProductionsTolerateAutomobilePopulation GrowthPower PlantsHuman PopulationGrasshoppers Author:M. King Hubbert
“Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.” VirtueHusbandResourcesOilRationalGasAccusedOil And Gas Author:M. King Hubbert
“All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.” DoeCharacterCan DoProveTimes Like These Author:Johann Gottfried Seume
“The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the Arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources, or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the most potent means for developing their minds.” WorldMindMeanChildrenArtCultureTeacherResourcesAspectFundamentalsDenyAccessDevelopingContributionNeglectInadequateStunning Author:Elliot W. Eisner
“The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.” LyingPleasureMagicAccommodate Author:Wanda Landowska