"Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the balance...a particularly harsh jolt to polar bears."

-- Andrew Revkin

#Summer Quotes #Balance Quotes #Energy Quotes

“A child can have too many toys, but never enough books.”
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
“If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.”
“I want to be like Rocky Balboa. Give me a title shot right away! I'll prove myself.”
“You should have seen his face when I started taking my clothes off. Priceless.”
“Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.”
“My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.”

Source : "Fifteen Questions with Nicholas A. Christakis". Interview with Stephanie M. Woo, www.thecrimson.com. October 20, 2011.
“There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.”

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