Anzlovar Paula Quotes & Sayings

Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production. — Thomas Homer-Dixon

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you. — James A. Michener

At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for. — Wade MacNeil

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. — Vince Lombardi

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens

The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows. — Thomas M. Disch

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community. — Hal Sparks

And in examining their life and deeds it will be seen that they owed nothing to fortune but the opportunity which gave them matter to be shaped into the form that they thought fit; and without that opportunity their powers would have been wasted, and without their powers the opportunity would have come in vain. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and nurtured me touches me to this day. I love the Protestant prayers of the English Church. And I love the stern and knotty argument, the sermon with heads and sequences, of the New England Congregationalist. For this catholicity Catholics have upbraided me, churchmen rebuked me, and dissenters denied that I had any religion at all. — Mary Catherwood

a life without love, is no life at all — Leonardo Da Vinci

I knew the poor,
I knew the hideous death they die,
when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
I knew the rich,
sated with merriment,
who yet are sad. — Hilda Doolittle

Not mastery but service, will lead people in the right way. — Albert Einstein