Fuel Quotes - Page 24

• Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.

  Hermann Scheer

  Fire, Energy, Fossils

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• Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well.

  Julian Simon

  Mean, People, Imagination

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• Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go.

  Stevie Wonder

  Needs, Wonder, Engines

  "Stevie Wonder returns with love in his heart". www.today.com. October 11, 2005.

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• The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

  Dallas Willard

  Grace, Saint, Use

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• The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.

  Steve Pavlina

  Motivation, Procrastination, Momentum

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• This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.

  Jim Wallis

  Years, Today, Fossils

  FaceBook post by Jim Wallis from Jan 22, 2015

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• Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together.

  Maya Angelou

  Uplifting, Flirting, Together

  "'The Welcome Table': Recipes from Maya Angelou". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. October 26, 2005.

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• The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

  Dallas Willard

  Grace, Saint, Takeoff

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• Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies are defining features of the emerging economic paradigm. In the new era, we each become a node in the nervous system of the biosphere.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Energy, Transition, Earth

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.14, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Dream, Ambition, Men

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “Handbook for Preclears”, p.129, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

  Louie Giglio

  Our Actions, Becoming, Driving

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• There is no doubt that the increasing numbers of women in the economy has helped fuel significant growth everywhere. And economies that are making the shift more effectively and rapidly are dramatically outperforming those that have not.

  Hillary Clinton

  Numbers, Doubt, Growth

  Keynote Speech APEC Summit on Women and the Economy, delivered 16 September 2011, Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, CA

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• If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Inspiring, Party, Leader

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• Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

  Francois Hollande

  Inspiring, Drug, Weapons

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• After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Workout, Gasoline, Lines

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• Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it's not nothing, it's something. But it's not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.

  Dave Chappelle

  Suicide, Suicidal, Giving

  "Dave Chappelle Knows 'There's Not Too Many People That Don't Think I'm Crazy'" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. June 11, 2014.

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• I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

  Bruce Lee

  Warrior, Light, Medicine

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.348, Tuttle Publishing

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• No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero-the temperature of interplanetary space.

  Nikola Tesla

  Zero, Future, Moon

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• ...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

  Ice T

  Artist, Fire, Creative

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• We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.

  Rick Renzi

  Meaningful, Moving, Oil

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• It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

  Neil Young

  Truth, Hands, Land

  Song: Thrasher, Album: Rust Never Sleeps

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• Less than 10% of the fuel energy burned in automobiles is translated into forward motion of the vehicle and even then most of this energy is needed to move the vehicle itself, which typically weighs 20 times more than its passengers.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Environmental, Energy

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• Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Oil, America, Environmental

  "The Tar Sands Disaster". www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2013.

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• Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the better it off it is for the American people.

  George W. Bush

  People, Environmental, Energy

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• For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to avoid debt; pay tithes and a generous fast offering; be industrious; and have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year. Today there are compelling reasons to reemphasize this counsel.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, Compelling Reason, Offering

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