"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."
4
"Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree Association, told how Rogers gave him advice in handling an educational campaign in tree planting.'Will Rogers told me,' said Pack, 'that I was on the wrong track in trying to educate people to the value of putting idle land to work growing trees. "Pack," he said, "you go down to Washington and get Congress to pass a law prohibiting tree planting and you'll have everybody doing it in a week."
4
"New Rule: Oil companies must stop with the advertisements implying they're friends of the environment. "At Exxon Mobil, we care about a thriving wildlife." Please--the only thing an oil executive has in common with a seagull is they'd both steal french fries from a baby."
3
"What do you consider the most interesting man-made structure in the galaxy?The dam they are building at the Three Gorges on the Yangtse. Though perhaps '“baffling'” would be a better word. Dams almost never do what they were intended to do, but create devastation beyond belief. And yet we keep on building them, and I can'’t help but wonder why. I'’m convinced that if we go back far enough in the history of the human species, we will find some beaver genes creeping in there somewhere. It'’s the only explanation that makes sense."
4
"1980's: not a time period but a state of mind."
3
"…. For instance, I hated Pearl Jam at the time. I thought they were pompous blowhards. Now, whenever a Pearl Jam song comes on the car radio, I find myself pounding my fist on the dashboard, screaming, “Pearl JAM! Pearl JAM! Now this is rock and roll! Jeremy’s SPO-ken! But he’s still al-LIIIIIVE!"
4
"Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving."
3
"However, I suppose VH1 *is* selling me something; they're selling nostalgia, which means they're selling my own memories back to me, which means they're selling me to me."
4
"New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of the American Family Association urged his flock to hand out a Christian-based comic book instead of candy. Excuse me, Halloween isn't a time to push your beliefs. You don't see me handing out pot to kids... Okay, well not the little kids."
3
"It is my firm belief that it is a mistake to hold firm beliefs"
3
"Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you’ve ever held dear with the greatest of ease."
3
"I'm in a squad where I'd rather shoot the C. O than the enemy.- Cooper Hawkes Knock it off. -T,C. Mc Queen You know what I'm saying, Sir. I mean I never felt like shooting you. -Cooper Hawkes Stop it, Hawkes. You're making me all misty.-- T. C. Mc Queen"
3
"It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent"
3
"There are few things less comforting than a tiger who's been up too late."
3
"It’s going to be okay, Eric," Urte said, helping me sit up. I shook my head. "Lying is my forte, Urte, not yours.” (Eric.)"
4
"I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night."
3
"Have some more tea, dear," Hester said, reaching for the pot and refilling my cup. "I always find that helps."
4
"She was of traditional build herself, but her figure was largely concealed by the folds of a generously cut shift dress made out of a flecked green fabric. It was like a tent, thought Mma Ramotswe--a camouflage tent of the sort that the Botswana Defence Force might use. But I do not sit in judgement on the dresses of others, she told herself, and a tent was a practical enough garment, if that is what one felt comfortable in."
4
"After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne."
3
"Self-loathing is man’s effort to sweep the moon of footprints."
4
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