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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

The environmental impacts of fossil fuels aside, the central issue here is geological. Whether in an individual coal pit, oil, or gas field, a nation or the planet as a whole, fossil fuel reserves and production tend to follow a bell curve over time. That means production rates increase on the upslope of the bell curve, and decrease on the down slope. Typically, the peak of this curve occurs when reserves are 50 percent depleted, which is followed by an irreversible slow decline in production following the law of diminishing returns.

Far-called our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the
fire:
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget.

We're immersed in a national personality freak show soap opera, with a side order of sports 24-7.

So don't pay attention to the approval ratings that say 68% of Americans disapprove of the job this man is doing. I ask you this, does that not also logically mean that 68% approve of the job he's not doing? Think about it. I haven't.

I stand by this man, I stand by this man, because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things, things like aircraft carriers, and rubble, and recently flooded city squares, and that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound with the most powerfully staged photo-ops in the world. Now, there may be an energy crisis. Well, this president has a very forward thinking energy policy, why do you think he's down on the ranch cutting that brush all the time? He's trying to create an alternative energy source. By 2008, we will have a mesquite powered car.

They would be like a latter-day Orpheus, charming the beasts and making the stones come to life.

Later people spoke to me of a new science, the science of voices or phonology, stimulated by developments in radio and methods of indirect persuasion used in advertising. Would such a science be possible? Surely. But desirable? I'm afraid not, for if the time should come when men mastered the art of the human voice, knew how to decipher it and modulate it at will, all that is left of liberty would be lost. Such men would have their hand on the hidden tiller. They would be like a latter-day Orpheus, charming the beasts and making the stones come to life. But remember that Orpheus had the right to his secret only as long as he refrained from abusing it.

The test of a science is its capacity to make correct predictions.

Only one person understood me, and not even he understands me.

Í upphafi níunda áratugarins lagði Ragnheiður ætinguna til hliðar vegna skaðsemi þessarar tækni fyrir heilsuna. Það kom þó ekki niður á list hennar því hinar stóru kolateikningar sem hún hefur unnið á síðustu árum buðu upp á sjálfsprottnari og kröftugri vinnubrögð í samræmi við þróun hennar til æ óhlutbundnara myndmáls. Ragnheiður er ef til vill fyrst og fremst teiknari andrúms og vídda sem eru undirliggjandi en ekki dagljósar. Áferð kolateikninganna er um margt áþekk silki sem blaktir á mörkum hins orðna og óorðna og umvefur áhorfandann í dansandi hillingum ljóss og skugga.

Lavamini mundi estote auferte malum cogitationum vestrarum ab oculis meis quiescite agere perverse.