"Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic."

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Source : "Market failures" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

James Buchan

#Optimistic Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Government Quotes

“If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.”
“A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.”
“The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.”

Source : Frederic William Farrar (1874). “The Life of Christ”, p.165
“One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio, and falling terms of trade. The last of these governments to fall were the Communist regimes of eastern Europe, which have now gone the way of other Third World countries. The second in the cascade of bifurcations is thus symbolized by 1989.”
“The hands are churches that worship the world.”
“God tested Abraham. That is, he sent him afflictions for his benefit, not so that he could find out what sort of man he was, for God knows everything, but so that He give him the means to perfect his faith.”
“By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing.”

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