#able

It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#different #different things #foreign #foreign oil #fuel

There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#available #canada #capital #develop #huge

If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable. ↗

— James Jarrell Pickle

#had #official #public #reachable #were

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#bit #certainly #change #change the world #honor

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet. ↗

— Robert Plant

#been #disposable #hasn #heaven #i

I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place. ↗

— Robert Plant

#anymore #aware #awful #best #chances

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life? ↗

— Robert Plant

#life #pays #piper #questions #these

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. ↗

— Plato

#honesty #honesty is #less #most #part

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. ↗

— Plato

#arts #being #capable #hardly #human

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#civil #civil society #international #nations #new