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Vaclav Smil Quotes

The history of energy use is a sequence of transitions to sources that are cheaper, cleaner, and more flexible.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: czechoslovakian
Birth: December 9, 1943

Topics

History Energy Flexible More Cleaner

Dialing down is not an option for me.

People always want to know what I fed my kids. I gave them real food, not frozen pizza.

Food Pizza People Know Want Frozen

The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.

Heaven Dying Being Going Like Thing

People are hurting, and they feel very disengaged and disenfranchised.

People Feel Disenfranchised Very

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

Life Home Great Child Me Fly

And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.

Me Year Security Forget Workers Us

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.

Louis Farrakhan

Good Brother Sister Evil You Way

I suppose I've been very fortunate in terms of my longevity and my voice and the way it has held up over the years. I hope to be able to keep on doing what I'm doing until I can't do it anymore.

Hope Voice Doing Way Longevity Over

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

Clare Boothe Luce

Women Myself Play Meat Head Who

While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for the South, the modern-day Rangers were created to help rejuvenate a defeated and demoralized U.S. imperialism after the war in Vietnam.

Brendan Sexton III

History War Fighting Help Back

I wasn't much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.

Busy Girlfriends Garage Much Too

If you believe that how you do your work is as influential as the work you do, then a theatre rehearsal, which is a microcosm of the world, is the perfect place to model social change because if it doesn't work this time, you can try again on the next production.

Work Change Time Theatre World You

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