"I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by human beings and all of the things that support human existence upon this globe. Even minor fluctuations of climate could change the distribution of fish, â€¦ upset agriculture,â€¦and inundate costal citiesâ€¦â€¦ Such changes could occur at a faster rate perhaps than human society can evolve."

-- Fred Singer

#Thinking Quotes #Cities Quotes #Agriculture Quotes

“You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.”
“Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.”
“We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.”
“It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.”
“I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.”
“The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.”
“People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.”

Source : Henry Mackenzie (1820). “The man of feeling: and Julia de Roubigné, a tale”, p.18
“Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.”

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