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"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

"Crisis is Good. Crisis is a Messenger."

"Stay in your boats, Dahra said. "We're still going to need food. Throw your fish onto the dock. I'll get Albert to send someone here to collect it. Then go back out, row up the coast a little ways, and camp out."Camp out? Quinn echoed."Yes!"You're serious."No, it's my idea of a joke, Quinn, Dahra snapped. "Pookie just coughed up a lung and fell over dead. You understand what I'm saying? I mean he coughed his actual lungs out of his mouth."

"If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it."

"In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis."

"Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another."

"The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security."
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"If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job."

"Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy."

"The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years."

"What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like."

"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."

"There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency."

"I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later."

"We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know."
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