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Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed. ↗

— David Suzuki

#accustomed #argue #become #build #coal

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens. ↗

— David Suzuki

#business #citizens #disputes #favor #help

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse. ↗

— Lynn Swann

#experienced #form #i #i think #minorities

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#anticipated #avoid #difficulties #i #i always

[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals itself in many forms, some of them as beautiful as a glass eye. One is the Liberal doctrine that a prairie demagogue promoted to the United States Senate will instantly show all the sagacity of a Metternich ... another is the doctrine that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will cease thereby to be a moron ... ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#morons #universities #beauty

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#cannot #current #current form #democratic #democratic societies

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#cake #cameras #dinners #exists #frozen

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#disguised #faced #great #impossible #opportunities

Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#capacities #impossibilities #opportunities #our #stretched

As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived. ↗

— Sheryl Swoopes

#daughters #generation #had #never #new