"We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is denial. Since there is some remaining scientific uncertainty, a natural response is to deny that change is occurring. This is natural but it is very dangerous."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Graciela Chichilnisky

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“It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.”
“Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.”
“An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record. I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time. CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression. Side one and side two? That's a product of vinyl. But that's not necessarily dramatic form - you could argue that that was three acts.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.”
“I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.”
“You like that analogy? That was pretty good?”
“My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.”

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