"When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for a while, and that doesn't mean we don't know that a warmer world will have less sea ice. It just means there's a lot of variability and people can pay too much attention to the big swings in one direction or the other."

-- Andrew Revkin

#Mean Quotes #One Direction Quotes #Swings Quotes

“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?”
“When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third will get it; and the remaining third wonâ€™t.Â So two-thirds of the children are wasting their time.”
“The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.”

Source : "Spotlight: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinematographer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme". The UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. February 7, 2011.
“When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!”
“I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.”
“Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.”

Source : Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.200, Routledge
“It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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