#ox

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#denying #maintain #may #paradox #principles

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero. ↗

— Bill Gates

#american #average #billion #bring #carbon

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. ↗

— Diogenes

#disgust #first #grapes #intoxication #kinds

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#everything #fox #hedgehog #i #i always

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in. ↗

— Larry Gelbart

#died #had #put #television #vaudeville

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films. ↗

— Tyrese Gibson

#against #approached #black #box #easy

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country. ↗

— Danny Glover

#among #country #environmentally #find #going

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#cardboard #cardboard box #i #novel #recycled

Over and over again-in the movie, I have nine different people who have worked for Fox News network who have come forward and talked on camera, three of them anonymously, by the way. ↗

— Robert Greenwald

#camera #come #different #different people #forward

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#nothing #obnoxious #other #people