Statements
"In James Bond movies, evil-doers meet in exotic settings to plot the destruction of the planet, but the people here were plotting to save the planet."
--Ecology Summit, Necker Island 2008
"Nothing can be achieved if people don’t work together… and you can’t get people to work together if they cannot form strong relationships"
--Richard Stromback, at Davos 2009
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“The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.”
—J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)
“Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women’s movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups.”
—Kimberly Crenshaw (b. 1959)
“There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)