petrol quotes

It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

-Harlech,William David Ormsby Gore, 5th Baron
  In the Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct.

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