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“What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump.”

People Earth Humanity Hours Buddhism Waste Toxic Traffic Dump After Hours Toxic Waste

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.”

People Should Use Community Company Waste Majors Rivers Excuse Oil Chemicals Toxic No Excuses Dump Eco Spades Pipeline Sewage Toxic Waste Refinery

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.”

Ifs Want Wells Mean Art Ideas Seems Culture House Design Waste Theatre Museums Bus Swimming Pool Opera Drag Toilets Borrowed Dump Swimming Pool Opera House

Author:Thomas Heatherwick

“FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.”

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Indeed, the quantity of PCBs still in use plus the quantity still languishing in waste dumps exceeds the total amount that has already escaped into the general environment. Without a program to recall and contain them, semivolatile PCBs will continue to insinuate themselves into the food chain for decades.”

Stills Use Environment Amount Waste Program Environmental Decades Chains Plus Quantity Pollution Recalls Exceed Dump Food Chain

Book:Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

Source: Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

“The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.”

Important America Black Issues Environment Five Four Rights Waste Fundamentals Civil Rights Neighborhood Toxic Dump Toxic Waste

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.”

Ifs Giving Earth Fall Wish Stars Waste Astronaut Dump Overboard Solid Waste

Author:Mike Mullane

“I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can 'pray away the gay,' I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do, I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it's okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean.”

Thinking Rights Praying Gay Waste Ocean Okay Vote Candidates Toxic Dump Uterus Toxic Waste

Author:Sophia Bush

“I'm staying," Henry said, annoyed. "Why?" "Because, if I leave, it would be like abandoning two mentally challenged people in a nuclear waste dump.”

People Ifs Said Two Would Be Waste Nuclear Staying Annoyed Dump Nuclear Waste

Book:Curse of the Spellmans: Document #2

Source: Curse of the Spellmans: Document #2

“Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.”

Business Industry Waste Economics Management Fuel Carbon Fossils Fossil Fuel Dump Carbon Dioxide

Author:Bill McKibben

“I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.”

Ideas Courses Mistake Learning Willing Failure Waste Projects Blame Prepared Boards Doomed Bad Ideas Dump Project Management Outfits

Author:Luke Johnson