#tru

The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#amazon #create #destruction #disorganized #economic

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#day #died #eyes #getting #her

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#die #dies #ever #goodness #in the past

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you. ↗

— Neve Campbell

#choices #control #matter #people #think

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. ↗

— Emile Zola

#am #beauty #care #centuries #concerned

It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies. ↗

— David Allan

#gain #hurt #lies #satisfaction #than

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. ↗

— Albert Camus

#condition #cost #friendship #how #nothing

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#happened #i #percent #stand #truth

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#fall #i #support #supported #truth

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#dispute #doubt #ease #fact #ignorance