Robert O. Mendelsohn famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Although it is important to examine the consequences of today's actions far into the future, it is important not to confuse far future actions with what is done today. The impact of emissions that are made after 2100 has no bearing on what the world should do for the next 30 or even 100 years.
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The world community simply should not support such extreme measures when there are so many other pressing issues at hand. The optimal response to greenhouse gases is to start modestly.
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The results of recent research on the impacts of climate change dramatically weaken the case for expensive, near-term abatement programs.
-- Robert O. Mendelsohn
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In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.
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The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved. Running requires the least food when during each cycle a certain amount of work is destroyed by vertical impact and a certain amount to horizontal friction. The same balancing act is responsible for optimal flight and swimming.
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No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
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Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
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The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
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Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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