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Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that is, out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts without risk of intolerable disruption-and our heavy dependence on oil in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and political liabilities.”
-- Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

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“I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.”
“Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.”
“A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.”
“The human race has improved everything, but the human race.”
“To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.”
“Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.”
“As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.”
“Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.”
“Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.”
“American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil,”

Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran quotes

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