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David Grinspoon Quotes

We have to learn to become a new kind of entity on this world that has the maturity and the awareness to handle being a global species with the power to change our planet and use that power in a way that is conducive to the kind of global society we want to have.

David Grinspoon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1959

Topics

Change Power Maturity World Society

There is an emerging subgenre of British nonfiction in which journalists from 'The Guardian' fearlessly recount their own derring-do in David-and-Goliath battles waged against omnipotent state interests in the pursuit of Big Important Truths.

Important Battles Own Big Against

A lot of progressives really believe that if we can turn out one more white paper with bullet points about how to fix Problem X, we can fix it. But that's not primarily the way you reach people or move them. You reach the heart first.

Robert Greenwald

Heart People Believe Reach Problem

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

Good Women Opinion You Need Valued

I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds.

Together Beginning People End Admire

'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.

Time Television Real Pure Example

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

True Only Writer Ear Reader

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Work Day Book Reading Doing Worth

Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman

Freedom People Free Want Group

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

Past You Seventy Forty Half Nearly

Jose Mourinho has been really clear about what he expects from me, saying he wants me working hard rather than just scoring. Hard work is what he values.

Work Hard Work Me Saying Values

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

Words Memory Ideas Think Language

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.

Christian de Duve

Change Success Children Energy You

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