Andrew Nikiforuk quote: "If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic."

The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too ...
ANDREW NIKIFORUK

Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid developme...
ANDREW NIKIFORUK

There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi ...
ANDREW NIKIFORUK

Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools an...
ANDREW NIKIFORUK

The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.
ANDREW NIKIFORUK

While I have no desire to see Mr. Obama's birth certificate, I do want to see his college transc...
ANDREW BREITBART

It's a sad day when a woman being funny and interested in science is considered newsworthy.
ELISE ANDREW

When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the...
ANDREW LINCOLN

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a ...
ANDREW YOUNG

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of ever...
ANDREW YOUNG

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID ...
ANDREW YOUNG

Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roa...
ANDREW PYPER

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would rea...
ANDREW WYETH

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gal...
ANDREW WYETH

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no c...
ANDREW WYETH

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
ANDREW WYETH

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I ...
ANDREW WYETH

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to...
ANDREW WYETH

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes ...
ANDREW WYETH

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebod...
ANDREW WYETH

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you...
ANDREW WYETH

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
ANDREW WYETH

I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cella...
ANDREW WYETH

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
ANDREW WYETH

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want...
ANDREW WYETH

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
ANDREW VACHSS

I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very ...
ANDREW LINCOLN

My tips for any budding actors would be to go out and see as much as you possibly can. Find the peop...
ANDREW GOWER

I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do g...
ANDREW FORREST

Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.
ANDREW SOLOMON

I'm not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, and it's certainly not because of his politics. I j...
ANDREW BREITBART

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their c...
ANDREW SCOTT

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I beli...
ANDREW CUOMO

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. O...
ANDREW ELDRITCH

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.
ANDREW MARVELL

John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!
ANDREW JACKSON

Our Union: It must be preserved.
ANDREW JACKSON

I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.
ANDREW VACHSS

If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human b...
ANDREW WEIL

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. St...
ANDREW GREELEY

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measur...
ANDREW CARD

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.
ANDREW TOBIAS

I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall o...
ANDREW MASON

Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that s...
ANDREW MASON

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talen...
ANDREW LO

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a crit...
ANDREW MASON

I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate,...
ANDREW TAN

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, ...
ANDREW FORREST

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State gove...
ANDREW CUOMO

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state o...
ANDREW YOUNG

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nons...
ANDREW YOUNG

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violen...
ANDREW YOUNG

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hear...
ANDREW YOUNG

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't k...
ANDREW YOUNG

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
ANDREW YOUNG

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
ANDREW YOUNG

'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened t...
ANDREW GROSS

Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and bef...
ANDREW DAVIES

The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sw...
ANDREW WEIL

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts a...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

You're achieving God's mission for humanity and country through capitalism, but by Christianity and ...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upo...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near.
ANDREW MARVELL

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
ANDREW YOUNG

Naodyma isn’t exactly a one-temple town, you know.
ANDREW ASHLING

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
ANDREW YOUNG

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
ANDREW YOUNG

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fo...
ANDREW YOUNG

My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people&#...
ANDREW SOLOMON

We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young...
ANDREW LANSLEY

Charles Blow's memoir 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' was a breathtaking piece of writing.
ANDREW ROSENTHAL

I believe in the simple things--the classic beginning of once upon a time, that good conquers evil i...
ANDREW KENDALL

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
ANDREW YOUNG

A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscie...
ANDREW O'HAGAN

Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion 'safe, legal and rare,' female liberals in ...
ANDREW BREITBART

If loving and communing with God isn’t your primary purpose in prayer, you’re missing out on wha...
ANDREW WOMMACK

Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-v...
ANDREW LINZEY

As truly as God by His power once
created, so truly by that same power must God every moment ma...
ANDREW MURRAY

There is also a CAN OF PEANUTS on the desk. Ha ha, oh DAD. You won't be falling for THAT one again a...
ANDREW HUSSIE

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. A...
ANDREW BOYD

What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, w...
ANDREW KENDALL

Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find anot...
ANDREW VACHSS

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.
ANDREW MOTION

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
ANDREW YOUNG

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
ANDREW YOUNG

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.
ANDREW MURRAY

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough rel...
ANDREW BOYD

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.
ANDREW LANG

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believ...
ANDREW SOLOMON

You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is...
ANDREW SOLOMON

A while ago?” Anaxantis asked. “Yes, he raped me a while ago. Exactly nine months and two days a...
ANDREW ASHLING

I can't afford to pay them any other way.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
ANDREW JACKSON

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anyt...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as s...
ANDREW JACKSON

The Noble Lord advocates Union, what doth such a union mean? When the Smaller unites with the greate...
ANDREW FLETCHER

When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, w...
ANDREW COHEN

I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musgrave
ANDREW FLETCHER

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result...
ANDREW GROVE

One man with courage makes a majority.
ANDREW JACKSON

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like som...
ANDREW JENSEN

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like...
ANDREW MATTHEWS

In bestowing charity, the main consideration: should be to help those who will help themselves; to p...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and...
ANDREW MATTHEWS

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacati...
ANDREW MATTHEWS

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
ANDREW YOUNG

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
ANDREW YOUNG

Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate.
ANDREW MATTHEWS

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
ANDREW DENTON

He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.
ANDREW LANG

If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nati...
ANDREW FLETCHER

Let who will make the laws of a nation so long as I am permitted to make her songs.
ANDREW FLETCHER

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

My Lord, I sorrow to learn that I am so timorous of heart and to learn that my Lord could be so forg...
ANDREW FLETCHER

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
ANDREW MARVELL

You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the ...
ANDREW JACKSON

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
ANDREW YOUNG

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are ...
PRINCE ANDREW

We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of e...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumst...
ANDREW SOLOMON

They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades...
ANDREW HOLLERAN

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

That the whole free people of any nation ought to be exercised to arms, not only the example of our ...
ANDREW FLETCHER

Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man fro...
ANDREW FLETCHER

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for l...
ANDREW BROWN

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, ...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

I will give you a few guarantees of my own, Mukthar. I guarantee that before the sun sets, even if y...
ANDREW ASHLING

Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an a...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged.
ANDREW CREIGHTON

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as s...
ANDREW JACKSON

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
ANDREW YOUNG

And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.
ANDREW MARVELL

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equ...
ANDREW JACKSON

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
ANDREW YOUNG

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
ANDREW HELLER

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
ANDREW JACKSON

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
ANDREW YOUNG

The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God
ANDREW WHITE

Davellon may be a village, but the Davellon House can be anything you make it. Nobil...
ANDREW ASHLING

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
ANDREW JACKSON

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire his...
ANDREW ROSS

Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone.
ANDREW MARVELL

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
ANDREW JACKSON

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

You can cover a great deal of country in books.
ANDREW LANG

Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would...
ANDREW LO

When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, b...
ANDREW SHUE

I don't think Albert Einstein could have devised an equation to guide the leader of the free wor...
ANDREW BREITBART

As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, ...
ANDREW WEIL

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep...
ANDREW WEIL

Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and nat...
ANDREW YOUNG

'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotiona...
ANDREW DAVIES

Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation.
ANDREW ROSENTHAL

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means th...
ANDREW WILES

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are...
ANDREW O'HAGAN

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
ANDREW GARFIELD

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my her...
ANDREW VACHSS

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness,...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've t...
ANDREW YOUNG

The ways that my dogs can make me - and my visitors - happy constantly amazes me.
ANDREW WEIL

Today I am announcing my support for Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States of Amer...
JOE ANDREW

I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S...
ANDREW LUCK

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acce...
ANDREW DOMINIK

American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees...
ANDREW WEIL

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most...
ANDREW BIRD

My long-held fear is that Mr. Obama is hiding something about his education. During the endless 2008...
ANDREW BREITBART

Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough with...
ANDREW ROSENTHAL

No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever rec...
ANDREW SOLOMON

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the ...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop a...
ANDREW LO

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.
ANDREW GREELEY

Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number ...
ANDREW MARR

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you'...
ANDREW SHUE

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybo...
ANDREW SHUE

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute f...
ANDREW BROWN

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be movi...
ANDREW MOTION

I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was ...
ANDREW DAVIES

Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our co...
ANDREW WEIL

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate d...
ANDREW WEIL

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own ...
ANDREW JACKSON

The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what ...
ANDREW BUCHAN

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possib...
ANDREW BERNSTEIN

One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or busi...
ANDREW MASON

There's no such thing as altruism.
ANDREW TOBIAS

Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or t...
ANDREW WEIL

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even ...
ANDREW WEIL

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot ...
ANDREW CLEMENTS

If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.

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If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.

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