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David R. Brower Quotes

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

David R. Brower

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: environmentalist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 1, 1912 - November 5, 2000

Topics

People Problem You Perfect Build

Every album that I've attempted, I suppose, has been different - it's bound to be.

Different Been Album Every Bound

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

Beauty Makeup Face Prison Sometimes

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.

Best Debate Down Go Tell Kentucky

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Words You Feelings Important Living

With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.

Daily Silence Baseball Library Loss

Despite all the evidence that Hispanics are not single-issue voters, Republican candidates are told that if they say harsh things about sanctuary cities, American jobs lost to illegal labor, or scandalous border security, Latino voters will punish them by voting Democrat.

Border Voting American Security Lost

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

Memory Worry You Get Older Your

The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.

Me Surprise You Person Two Always

The best science frequently combines an awareness of broad and significant problems with focus on an apparently small issue or detail that someone very much wants to solve or understand. Sometimes these little problems or inconsistencies turn out to be the clues to big advances.

Science Best Focus Detail Small

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Life Fear Live Creative Lose Wrong

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

Present Powerful Security Need Most

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.

David Weinberger

Work Knowledge Time Diversity Think

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