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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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"Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference."
"I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk."
"We are treated different because we want to be treated different."
"Be different to make a difference."
"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."
"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."
"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage."
"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
"I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference."
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"Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."
"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."
"After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital."
"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth."
"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."
"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."
"The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development."
"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."
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