#perpetuate

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change. ↗

— Peter Welch

#buildings #change #climate #climate change #contribution

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#american citizens #citizens #happiness #involve #moods

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#law #name #perpetuated #shield #than

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#known #more #more people #myth #need

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people. ↗

— Jean O'Leary

#about #eliminate #essence #gay #going

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#bondage #influences #more #other #perpetuate

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. ↗

— James Thurber

#decline #english #english language #expression #fact

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#be happy #beyond #commencement #everything #fine

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. ↗

— William Godwin

#employ #fail #government #hands #institutions

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. ↗

— Richard Eberhart

#any #central #death #establish #feelings