career day

"I am not a manual labourer and please God I shall never be one, but there are some kinds of manual work that I could do if I had to. At a pinch I could be a tolerable road-sweeper or an inefficient gardener or even a tenth-rate farm hand. But by no conceivable amount of effort or training could I become a coal-miner; the work would kill me in a few weeks."

- George Orwell [1903-1950], Road to Wigan Pier

global warming

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
- Upton Sinclair [1878 -1968]