Quotes of Impurity - somelinesforyou

“ The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. ”

- Dan Quayle

“ Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ The diesel engine industry has illegally poured millions of tons of pollution into the air,... It's time for the industry to clean up its act, and it's time for it to clean up the air. ”

- Janet Reno

“ There is nothing in those logs at all about chemical contamination of my troops. ”

- Norman Schwarzkopf

“ This is the first time a Kurd has been freely elected to be the president of an Arab country. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not… ”

- Primo Levi

“ The American people have a genius for splendid and unselfish action, and into the hands of America, God has placed the destinies of afflicted humanity. ”

- Pope Pius XII

“ Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution. ”

- Bob Dylan

“ Pollution is the forerunner of perdition. ”

- John Trapp

“ The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. ”

- Rene Dubos

“ When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray. ”

- Irv Kupcinet

“ A man calumniated is doubly injured — first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. ”

- Herodotus

“ Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. ”

- Buckminster Fuller

“ Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to be dispersed because we've been ignorant of their value. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ We've found out that once you get up to 85 percent ethanol, there are no pollution concerns. ”

- Jerry Martin

“ Gas cans are responsible for thousands of tons of air pollution. You would be astonished. ”

- Jerry Martin

“ It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. ”

- Stanley Milgram

“ I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say. ”

- Harold Bloom

“ It's not going to be a pretty sight. My next big worry is contamination and disease. ”

- Kathleen Blanco

“ The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. ”

- Theodore White

“ There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. ”

- Robert Orben

“ But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments. ”

- Epictetus

“ We are not naive enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ Your ideas are like diamonds without the refining process, they are just a dirty rock, but by cutting away the impurities, they become priceless. ”

- Paul Kearly
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