#preserving

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect. ↗

— James Payn

#enough #fact #having #him #his

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle. ↗

— Dean Stockwell

#everyone #go #going #i #layer

The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#actually #always #best #best interests #his

I would argue that it is not human fecundity that is overcrowding the world so much as the technological multipliers of the power of individual humans. The worst disease of the world now is probably the ideology of technological heroism, according to which more and more people willingly cause large-scale effects that they do not see and that they cannot control. This is the ideology of the professional class of the industrial nations—a class whose allegiance to communities and places has been dissolved by their economic motives and by their educations. These are people who will go anywhere and jeopardize anything in order to assure the success of their careers. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#education

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#collecting #hobby #like #nice #preserving

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. ↗

— George W. Bush

#executive #i #i am #mindful #myself

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#come #everglades #i #me #necessity

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history. ↗

— James R. Thompson

#history #important #part #preserving #state

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. ↗

— Dee Hock

#clothing #follows #forms #future #past

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges. ↗

— Wayne Allard

#bases #buffer #carson #country #critical