Reuse Quotes

• The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

  Issey Miyake

  Ideas, Purpose, Use

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• Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse

  J. R. D. Tata

  Common, Thinker, Refuse

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• Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Use, Recycling

  Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Art, Creativity, Building

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Car, Use, Computer

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• Nothing lasts forever. But the thing is, you can reuse some. Use your mind. - Leo's Mother, The Lost Hero

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Hero, Forever

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• Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

  Eric S. Raymond

  Writing, Programming, Programmers

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.24, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• In my lifetime, I want to see humanity start being conscious of our waste, the things we buy, and how we can reuse and recycle things. I want people to live harmoniously with our planet. I hope everybody wakes up and appreciates life.

  Jason Mraz

  People, Appreciate, Humanity

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

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• Recycling is what we do when we're out of options to avoid, repair, or reuse the product first. Firstly: Reduce. Don't buy what we don't need. Repair: Fix stuff that still has life in it. Reuse: Share. Then, only when you've exhausted those options, recycle.

  Annie Leonard

  Needs, Stuff, Firsts

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• Support renewable energy. Recycle. Reuse. Restore. Replenish.

  Claudia Black

  Support, Energy, Renewable Energy

  "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process

  Issey Miyake

  Cutting, Buttons, Use

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• It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, thats a victory.

  Emily Deschanel

  Differences, Victory, Cups

  "Organic Living with Emily Deschanel". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. September 5, 2001.

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• We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Hands, Benefits, Use

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• I was brought up to reuse things.

  Annabelle Selldorf

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• Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

  Douglas Crockford

  Engineering, Holy Grail, Software

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• To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

  David Korten

  Zero, Taken, Ecosystems

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• The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here, but much of what’s on view is actually more about obsession and repetition: a couch made out of 3,500 quarters, a necklace composed of 100 handgun triggers. The building, too, seems caught between wanting to be an object of decorative delectation and making an architectural statement.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Humble, Museums

  "Museum Date". Interview with Jerry Saltz, nymag.com. September 7, 2008.

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• Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.

  Barry Commoner

  Differences, People, Feel Good

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• Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy? Why use more resources than we need to in manufacturing? We must now work together to build a zero waste nation - where we reduce the resources we use, reuse and recycle all that we can and only landfill things that have absolutely no other use

  Hilary Benn

  Zero, Working Together, Energy

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• We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.

  Van Jones

  Work, School, College

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• I learned in America a long time ago, the three R's, the principle of three R's - reuse, reduce, recycle. And as I say those words, there are so many things individually we can do to reduce - we don't need to consume as much as we are consuming. Reduce. And by reusing, we can reuse a lot of things we just throw into the dumpsite. And reduce the production. The more we reuse, the more we can reduce.

  Wangari Maathai

  America, Long, Principles

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

  Antonio Banderas

  Kids, House, Recycling

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• Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

  William McDonough

  Community, Mind, Trying

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• I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.

  Tayari Jones

  Love Is, Yarn, Sweaters

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• It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet the overall trajectory of industrial civilization remains relatively unchanged.

  Richard Heinberg

  Civilization, Courageous, Program

  Richard Heinberg (2015). “Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels”, p.65, New Society Publishers

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