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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

~Dan Lipinski

Topics: Advances Biodiversity Change Climate Climate Change Dependence Despite Energy Environment Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Global Including Loss Many Our Problems Range Still Threatened Unsustainable

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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

~Dan Lipinski

Topics: American Caused Countries Dealing Dependence Import Much Now Oil Our Resources Right Situations Spent Time Too Too Much Unstable

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Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Care Dependence Design Extent Foreign Foreign Oil Health Health Care Most Need Oil People Political Political Power Positions Poverty Power Problem Problems Put Solve Some Thinkers Those Who

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First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

~Daniel Yergin

Topics: American Common Dependence Different Different People Energy Energy Security Europeans Find First Focused Gas Geopolitical Imported Meaning Much Natural Natural Gas Notion Now People Question Radically Right Security Very Vocabulary

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Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Attendant Create Crime Degrading Dependence Errors Habits Indolence Many Miseries Opens Petty Train Vice

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The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

~Dorothy Dix

Topics: Afford Age Cannot Dependence Old Old Age Poverty Price Things You Your Yourself Youth

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There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.

~Elizabeth Dole

Topics: Cannot Coastal Communities Dependence Doubt Drilling End Ever Foreign Foreign Oil Ignoring More Must No Doubt Now Oil Oppose Our Sources Than We Cannot Wishes Work

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A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

~Ernst Mach

Topics: Colour Colours Consider Dependence Forth Instance Luminous Object Other Physical Soon Source Spaces Temperatures

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The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests.

~Evan Bayh

Topics: Able America American Amount China Countries Debt Dependence Foreign Half Held High Historic Holding Influence Interests Investors Japan Nations Other Our Policies Publicly Raises Specter Ways Will

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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

~Fred Allen

Topics: Achievement Alliance Around Dependence Each Go Goals Love Makes Mutually Other Partners Private Rather Recognize Shared Supportive Those Through Which World

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