"If you have a flat, fixed view of state interest then it is difficult to understand why some states adopt aggressive climate change policies, even when that risks economically disadvantaging them, and other states do not even when it would be in their economic interests to do so."

-- Dale Jamieson

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“No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?”

Source : Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.88, Macmillan
“The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.”

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“Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.”
“If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.”
“You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.”
“Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.”
“They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.”
“This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.”

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