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"Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway."
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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
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"Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there."
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"Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference."
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"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
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"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."
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"The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment."
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
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"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."
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"We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits."
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"I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations."
Environment
"Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities."
Progress
"Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development."
Development
"I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs."
Decision-Making
"In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost."
Car
"We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance."
Chance
"If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset."
Money
"Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs."
Force
"One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways."
Environment
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