Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a single person’s 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1, 100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh’s pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the few relics of our civilization guaranteed to be recognizable twenty thousand years from now is the potato chip bag. . Edward Humes
Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
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William Shakespeare
It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and...
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Deb Caletti
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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Unknown
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Charles Darwin
It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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Mitch Albom
More Quotes By Edward Humes
We are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.
Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution -- the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening...
Take a trip in my mindsee all that I've seen, and you'd be called abeast, not a human being... Fuck it, cause there'snot much I can do, there's no way out, myscreams have no voice nomatter how loud I shout... I could be called alow...
It's not like they can take anything from me, ' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing to give. Nothin' but time, that is. And I been doin' time my whole life, one way or the other.
Locking everyone up is not the solution, ' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. 'It's just the symptom of the problem. It's the proof that we're doing something wrong.
