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"The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades."
"Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed."
"There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small."
"If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky."
"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."
"Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future."
"Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection."
"I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again"
"Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon."
"There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel."
"Energy is not only the basis of our existence, it is the fuel that makes everything in our lives real and possible."
"Renewable ethanol represents a clear opportunity to grow a significant portion of our own fuel locally and begin to break the hold imported fuels have on us."
"Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress."
"Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby."
"Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes."
"I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It's an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet."
"The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest disaster so far in human history, saving millions of lives while improving billions more. If we fail, basically it's business as usual while things slowly get worse all around us."
"Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else-gave way to the proposed arrangement."
"After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'."
"So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency."
