"When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens."

-- Dale Jamieson

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“Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.”

Source : Dirk Jan Struik (1987). “A Concise History of Mathematics”, p.1, Courier Corporation
“Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to find good situations and exploit them.”
“Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.”
“You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough.”
“As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.”
“Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.”
“If you have a strong sense of who you are and what you're doing, then it's actually easier to work with other people, because you don't have to worry about them or yourself. You're just worrying about getting the best product, and all that other stuff is out of the way.”
“As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy. People want America to have a certain image when we fight. Yet I would guess if someone were shooting at them and they had to hold their family members while they bled out against an enemy who hid behind their children, played dead only to throw a grenade as they got closer, and who had no qualms about sending their toddler to die from a grenade from which they personally pulled the pin....they would be less concerned with playing nicely.”

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