Gordon R. Sullivan famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be.
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Climate Change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military operations around the world. People are saying they want to be perfectly convinced about climate science projections. But speaking as a soldier, we never have 100 percent certainty. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.
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We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.
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People are saying that they want be convinced [about global warming], perfectly. They want to know the climate science projections with 100 per cent certainty. Well, we know a great deal and even with that there is still uncertainty. But the trend line is very clear. We never have 100 per cent certainty. We never have it. If you wait till you have 100 per cent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield. That's something we know. You have to act with incomplete information. You have to act based on the trend line...
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If we want an all-volunteer force, the bottom line is that we're going to have to take care of these people who were willing to do what the bulk of people weren't willing to do. Going to war is dangerous - you can get killed doing it. And the question is, Are the American people willing to recognize the sacrifices of these young people?
-- Gordon R. Sullivan
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Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
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The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
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Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems
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...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.
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Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.
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An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.
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Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.
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