"Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels"

-- Nicholas Stern

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“If you cannot find a group whose consciousness matches your own, be the source of one. Others of like consciousness will be drawn to you.”
“A fictional, but all too real, look at extremist militias in the United States and the extent to which some of them go to carry out their 'missions'.”
“Books about suicide make lousy gifts.”
“What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
“Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile.”
“I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.”
“Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything has been considered.”

Source : Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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