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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#accepted #believe #blame #capitalism #change

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#brain #energy #even #i #meaningful

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes. ↗

— Julian Clary

#being #come #personality #quite #rodents

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone. ↗

— Powell Clayton

#birth #born #conservative #gone #idea

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#communicate #difficult #easy #i #i can

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#feel #i #i do #model #personally

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#enormous #fools #i #important #maintained

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people. ↗

— Matthew Continetti

#economic security #economy #ensuring #global #global economy

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model. ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

#i #involved #model #much #school

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#cheerful #curiosity #endows #form #generosity