Donella Meadows Quotes

Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.

Donella Meadows

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Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.

Melina Mercouri

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Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

John Polkinghorne

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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

Rita Dove

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Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment.

Mike Shinoda

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Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

Michael Morpurgo

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We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.

Luis Gutierrez

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I'm always in the theater seeing everything, good or bad.

Logan Lerman

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Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck will produce variations in outcomes.

Janet Yellen

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My parents were hardworking. They made every penny stretch as far as possible. That was probably the major reason everything they gave me was always two or three sizes too large.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.

Denise Morrison

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Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

Dee Rees

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I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college.

Debbie Stabenow

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