#ma

Almost every week, someone's mad at me. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#every #mad #me #someone #week

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system. ↗

— Ron Kind

#ecological #economic #finally #health #healthy

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before. ↗

— Ron Kind

#before #few #field #integrated #last

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#discipline #friendship #him #intimate #jesus

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#endowment #every #his #human #human life

. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources, and . . . world famine could be totally relieved if we devoted the same resources of lawn culture to food culture in poor areas. These facts are before us. Thus, we can look at lawns, like double garages and large guard dogs, [and Humvees and SUVs] as a badge of willful waste, conspicuous consumption, and lack of care for the earth or its people. Most lawns are purely cosmetic in function. Thus, affluent societies have, all unnoticed, developed an agriculture which produces a polluted waste product, in the presence of famine and erosion elsewhere, and the threat of water shortages at home. The lawn has become the curse of modern town landscapes as sugar cane is the curse of the lowland coastal tropics, and cattle the curse of the semi-arid and arid rangelands. It is past time to tax lawns (or any wasteful consumption), and to devote that tax to third world relief. I would suggest a tax of $5 per square metre for both public and private lawns, updated annually, until all but useful lawns are eliminated. ↗

— Bill Mollison

#food #peak-oil #permaculture #postcarbon #food

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? ↗

— Alan King

#banker #banks #chain #come #down

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever. ↗

— Ralph Kiner

#anyone #baseball #difficult #difficult things #ever

First month honey. . .Next month pie. . .Third month. . .Get out here and work, you damn bitch, same as I. ↗

— Karen Cecil Smith

#marriage-advice #marriage

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#affected #afford #aids #been #bit