GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
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Related You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel whe... ANDREA DWORKIN The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past... DEYTH BANGER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN My goal has always been to make a living and to have the respect of my peers. It's never been ab... CELIA WESTON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Who is there who has not been overcome by the ravages of time? What beggar has attained glory? Who h... CHANAKYA It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I not often like the begining of something it has it owns doubts, loses and failures. But the end is... DEYTH BANGER I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is al... ROBERT J. SAWYER The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the fa... VINCENT BUGLIOSI Theocracy has been rightly abolished not because it is bad that learned priests should govern ignora... C.S. LEWIS I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... Every retarded, deformed, crippled, handicapped, or senile person, who has been baptized, is a power... MOTHER ANGELICA He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead. ERIN HUNTER You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of it... ARUNDHATI ROY We do not want anything that would in itself be a price control. The way the rate has been going up ... LUXON ZEMBE Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about ... MARILYN MANSON I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But th... CAT STEVENS Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for ... GLORIA STEINEM Historically, it's not like GM has always been a great company. It's had it's cyclical down periods.... CHUCK CARLSON When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perf... JOSEPH CAMPBELL There is no question that America has been a nation that has been blessed by almighty God. There is ... FRANKLIN GRAHAM Everyone has it's own great triumph, has he own story with sadness, madness and reverses. That's how... DEYTH BANGER The Tour de France is a wicked sport in the way that it's not just man against man or woman agai... BEN FOSTER Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therape... ADRIAN TOMINE When you think about a destination brand, it is really about a science. This is not art, this is abo... DUANE KNAPP For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more a... ACE FREHLEY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?... DAVID MAMET It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; a... IVAN PAVLOV Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackl... THERESA MAY Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility. CASS MCCOMBS Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being ba... TINA BROWN I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of war... ROY SPENCER 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON is just seriously out of control, and this administration has not been paying attention to those pro... BRUCE BARTLETT The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been. JOHN MALKOVICH The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization... JAMES BALDWIN The global economy has been growing the last two years at rates not seen since World War II, fuelled... LUISA KROLL The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been trie... RUSH LIMBAUGH The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it i... ANGELO CODEVILLA In a world littered with economic instability and job insecurities, why must we make THIS election a... WILSON J. WASHINGTON III Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever ... RABIH ALAMEDDINE The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the... GAVIN NEWSOM Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. GINA GREENLEE Nothing about this process has been fair, nothing about this process has been bipartisan, and nothin... GREGORY CRAIG This is an anxiety driven world - the whole world is driven by anxiety. It is anxiety about the afte... ROBERT J. SHILLER To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not... WILL SHETTERLY If one wants to talk about the end of the world, the apocalypse, you're talking about the world ... DAVID SELTZER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t... CRISTIANO RONALDO U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always ... APOLO OHNO 'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society... FELIX DENNIS What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been s... ROBERT KENNEDY When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or mon... MA JUN The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by over... VINCE CABLE Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an... JERRY SALTZ This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a r... DANNY GLOVER On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor. PAWAN MISHRA I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it's been an issue for me ... RICHARD LINKLATER If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interd... BONO Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control. DERRICK GRAYSON Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD I have never been a fan of the BRAC process because of the impact it has on communities with militar... ROGER WICKER Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is no... JACK DANGERMOND And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there ... GREGORY MAGUIRE Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it... MARCUS SAMUELSSON I frankly think we in the financial service world believe we need appropriate kinds of regulations. ... CHARLES SCHWAB Ford has always been willing to listen. But the reality is that their products have continued to lag... JASON MARK It has been a weird or wicked practice in almost all private organizations to not give even X remune... ANUJ SOMANY Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing somethin... JASON ALEXANDER It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It h... MALCOLM TURNBULL I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as... ALDEN EHRENREICH Science education is the foundation of our global economy, yet it has been treated with second-class... EVA MOSKOWITZ My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. I... RALPH LAUREN You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the... MARCO RUBIO 'The Slap' is not like anything else. It's an incredibly well-written novel that has bee... ESSIE DAVIS Maturity has never been about age, built or possession: It is rather about having the capacity ... ALIBABA YAKUBU To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the... JANINE DI GIOVANNI I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that... A. S. BYATT The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt a... GEORGE C. WILLIAMS It's not a question of size, of whether it's a small or a big thing, but of what it has the ... CHARLOTTE CASIRAGHI It is with great pleasure that we welcome Konami as an official global partner of the inaugural Worl... PAUL ARCHEY He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and th... JEFF TWEEDY Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big pictu... ED WOOD Why things are not easy?
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