#sands

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year. ↗

— James Lovelock

#change #changing #climate #geological #happen

The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows. ↗

— Walter Map

#bacon #becomes #eat #feet #give

In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#basically #been #before #got #great

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#acceptable #acres #action #because #big

Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#dependent #dollars #florida #jobs #make

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#beliefs #held #never #questioned #sway

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#company #detection #dollars #encryption #essentially

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#commitments #fight #government #group #groups

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives to terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, and thousands more will - because, unlike the Pakistani government, which has no coherent policy to deal with the radicals, the Taliban have one to deal with Pakistan and its citizens. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#because #citizens #civilians #coherent #deal

In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#aspire #change #december #films #found