"It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will remain somewhere in the arctic. What's more likely is that we'll continue remaking the planet, driving many species to extinction, killing millions of people through the indirect effects of climate change, making life even harder for the poor and powerless than it is now, and making it a little more difficult for the global middle class to live the lives to which they have become accustomed - in other words, business as usual, only worse."

-- Dale Jamieson

#Class Quotes #People Quotes #Screw Ups Quotes

“The thing about 'Star Trek' is that it is not judgmental. You can do what ever you want, within reason.”
“If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.”

Source : "The Mountains of Pi" by Richard Preston, www.newyorker.com. March 02, 1992.
“We're a little lazy about spirituality in this country.”
“In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.”

Source : "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.
“On a deep almost preconscious level we know, not with our minds but deep in our hearts the truth of the words, love never ends.”
“What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-established democracies such as Britain. Western supremacy is on the skids. But everyone does capitalism. Americans and Europeans do it. Indians do it. Russian oligarchs and Saudi princes do it. Even Chinese communists do it.... Karl Marx would be turning in his grave. Or perhaps not, since some of his writings eerily foreshadowed our era of globalized capitalism. His prescription failed but his description was prescient.”

Source : "Global capitalism now has no serious rivals. But it could destroy itself" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2007.
“The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.”
“I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.”

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