[EnviroEngr]

When a thing is
funny, search it
carefully for a
hidden truth.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

[EnviroEngr]

Searching for words, hunting for
phrases, when will it end?
Esteeming knowledge and gathering
information only maddens the spirit.
Just entrust yourself to your own
nature, empty and illuminating—
Beyond this, I have nothing to teach.

BANKEI

[Bytesmiths]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Rincewind', '[')b] "The planet isn't in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves."

Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park -the Book)

[Bytesmiths]

SELECT * FROM Quotes WHERE Quote LIKE 'energy': <i>(interesting subset)</i>

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('C. S. Lewis', 'T')hat is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended -- civilizations are built up -- excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.

[Bytesmiths]

SELECT * FROM Quotes WHERE Quote LIKE 'oil':

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Will Rodgers', 'I') see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn’t just crazy about us; for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart.

[Bytesmiths]

SELECT * FROM Quotes WHERE Quote LIKE 'power'

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Wendell Trogdon', 'A')n American is a person who demonstrates against a new power plant,then goes home and flips on all the lights, turns up the air conditioner, puts a tape in the stereo, opens the refrigerator door, plugs in the coffee maker and sits down to see if the television cameras caught him protesting.

[Guest]

Here is one of the quotes that I think has the best fit to peak oil;

Anon, a Cree prophecy: "After the last tree has been cut down; after the last river has been poisoned; after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

[Guest]

Other quotes that I belive apply to peak oil;

Joseph Stalin: "One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are merely a statistic."

Anon: "There is no anger, jealousy, hatred, suspicion. There is only fear and its various derivatives"

William Sloane Coffin: senior minister, Riverside Church, NYC: "In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions"

Pope John Paul II: "An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has cast doubt on reason's ability to know the truth, which alone satisfies the human heart's restless quest for meaning."

Newt Gingrich, Ex-speaker of the House: "The idea that congressmen would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument."

Golda Meir: "There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel."

[EnviroEngr]

Thank you everyone, by the way, for your contributions; along with the new Dumbest Quotes thread, this has been very inspiring.

[EnviroEngr]

A human being must be born twice.
Once from his mother and again from
his own body and his own existence.
The body is like an egg and the essence
of man must become a bird in that egg
through the warmth of love, and then he
must go beyond his body and fly in the
eternal world of the soul.

SULTAN VALAD

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Will Rodgers', 'I') see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn’t just crazy about us; for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart.

[PenultimateManStandin]

LIVING IS EASY WITH EYES CLOSED
MISUNDERSTANDING ALL YOU SEE

John Lennon

[EnviroEngr]

Let us endeavor to live
so that when we come to
die, even the undertaker
will be sorry.

MARK TWAIN

[EnviroEngr]

Do you imagine the universe
is agitated?
Go into the desert at night and
look out at the stars.
This practice should answer
the question.

LAO TZU

[EnviroEngr]

12/15/1791: The Bill of Rights
becomes law.

A Calendar Called History

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

Do not interfere in the affairs of dragons; for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

[EnviroEngr]

Eliminate something superfluous
from your life.
Break a habit.
Do something that makes you feel
insecure.
Carry out an action with complete
attention and intensity, as if it
were your last.

PIERO FERRUCCI

[EnviroEngr]

Throw away sacredness and
wisdom and people will be a
hundred times happier.

LAO TZU

[MarkL]

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[MonteQuest]

“Poor people aren’t necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn’t mean you’re willing to kill.â€