[Ads-l] Preliminary Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2022

[James Eric Lawson]

Right-ho. I wasn't imagining you'd use the whole thing, just providing
context for editorial intervention. For example:

So why are we only talking about transforming society and not about
obliging a highly profitable industry to clean up the mess caused by the
products it sells? -- Prof. Myles Allen, discussing record-high fossil
fuel industry profits in 2022

See https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/myles-allen/ for Allen's
background.

Or something along that line.

Another suggestion, the now well-known bit of pith, quoting Paul
Pelosi's attacker today: "Where's Nancy?"


On 10/28/22 12:38, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> Yes, this is a very provocative and notable quote, but note that at least a reasonable amount of pithiness is essential to make my list, I'm never going to include a very long quote.
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> Fred Shapiro
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> This quote seems outstandingly notable to me:
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> Prof Myles Allen, at the University of Oxford, said: “The combined
> profits, taxes and royalties generated by the oil and gas industry over
> the past few months would be enough to capture every single molecule of
> CO2 produced by their activities and reinject it back underground. So
> why are we only talking about transforming society and not about
> obliging a highly profitable industry to clean up the mess caused by the
> products it sells?”
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