“Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.” WorldWellsLongCountryJobsEnergyViewsTakenSourceResourcesEuropeWesternGrantedAustraliaRevenueAffordableInventoryWestern Europe Author:John S. Watson
“I have taken on virtually every element of the big money establishment, whether it's the Koch brothers, and the big energy companies, whether it's the industrial complex, whether it's Wall Street... I have taken on the drug companies. I have taken on the insurance companies.” BigsEnergyCompanyTakenStreetsBrotherWallDrugElementsComplexesEstablishmentInsurance CompaniesDrug Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
“Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.” WholeHandsCareEnergyEducationRichTakenPoliticianWasteThirdsRateUniversityCoreWasting TimeScholarRotten Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
“Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.” GivingSaidPoliticalUsedValuesEnergyForceNationsInterestPartyConsciousnessTakenShareProductsCuriousExtrasLeisureSparesPolitical PartiesGood Will Book:A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems Source: A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems
“If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.” IfsShouldSelfProblemWould BeValuesEnergyDemocracyTakenFailingDisciplineLeavingSubstanceLackingSelf DisciplineCommonwealthPersonal Problems Author:Margery Wilson
“Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.” MenYearsBigsEnergyCompanyTakenHe ManMen And WomenVoteCongressCampaignsDonationSubsidies Author:Bill McKibben
“Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.” MadeTwoMatterEnergyHeavenTakenBloodDivineFilledConversionSinnerRighteousnessObedient Book:Sermons on Soul Winning Source: Sermons on Soul Winning
“I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.” WantActionEarthFormUniverseEnergyHeavenAnimalTakenAdventureFitRootsConclusionBuriedExtinctionWant UOld DaysRecycledMicroorganisms Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail and in the wit and energy of Michael Giacchino's score, but the quality control that has been exercised over this project also has a curiously undermining effect. The movie eagerly sells itself as semitrashy, almost-campy fun, but it is so lavish and fussy that you can't help thinking that it wants to be taken seriously, and therefore you laugh at, rather than with, its mock sublimity.” ThinkingWantHas BeensHelpingEnergyFunQualityLaughingTakenEffectsProjectsSellsDetailsWitGenuineVisualsScoreEvidentGrandeurPrecisionMockUnderminingSillinessPixarSublimityFussyQuality Control Author:A. O. Scott
“I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.” YearsHouseEnergyLeftWhiteTakenCarSixHundredComplexesGasWhite HouseEfficiencyEmissionsGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesEnergy Efficiency Author:William J. Clinton