"Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has been used and there's been too little plain, scientific, and economic thinking. And so, the entire political class has been captured by an idea, which as always with the best bad ideas has a grain of truth in it, which is then exaggerated beyond all reason. This has happened before - one thinks of the Dreyfus case, for instance."

-- Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

#Thinking Quotes #Class Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.”
“...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.”
“Weâ€™ve gone through the namesâ€”Negro, African American, African, Black. For me thatâ€™s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?”
“Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.”
“The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.”
“Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.”

Source : Nathalie Sarraute (1990). “The age of suspicion: essays on the novel”, George Braziller
“In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.”

Source : Sandra Oh moves from 'Sideways' to TV, www.today.com. March 22, 2005.
“In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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