#source

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#destruction #heritage #long-term #policy #preserve

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. ↗

— Balthus

#anguish #endless #great #painting #pleasure

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel. ↗

— Scott Adams

#clean #convert #efforts #energy #eventually

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#future #hope #implies #knowledge #love

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#computer #computers #find #hook #just

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#become #even #friends #friendship #greatest

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. ↗

— David Attenborough

#fulfillment #great #natural #natural world #only

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. ↗

— David Attenborough

#excitement #greatest #intellectual #interest #life

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#better #break #coming #could #divisive

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#course #families #family #get #members