"The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we are witting participants in the biggest experiment humans have ever done: moving CO2 levels to twice their value in the past 670.000 years and hoping it turns out okay for generations to come."

-- Nathan Lewis

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“Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles.”
“People concentrate, particularly for their own purposes, on dividing people, and it's just not necessary. If you actually spend time with somebody, in 10 minutes, you'll find something in common, and it's powerful when you do. When you find you've got something in common with somebody, all of a sudden, you're friends.”
“One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.7, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“Then one day, this kid named Darren Walsh touched the Cheese with his finger, and that's what started this thing called the Cheese Touch. It's basically like the Cooties. If you get the Cheese Touch, you're stuck with it until you pass it on to someone else. The only way to protect yourself from the Cheese Touch is to cross your fingers.”
“Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future”
“What we will become depends on us”
“First feelings are always the most natural.”
“From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.”

Source : Nina Garcia (2009). “The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own”, p.32, Harper Collins

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