"Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril."

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Source : James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.4, A&C Black

James Hansen

#Civilization Quotes #Climate Quotes #World Quotes

“I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.”

Source : "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. January 8, 2012.
“Isnt it the very last thing we feel grateful for - having happened? You needn't have happened. But you did happen.”
“In order to expand the gaming population, it is taken for granted that we need to offer games to satisfy veteran gamers. At the same time, I believe that we need to make a new proposal, so that those who do not play games can say, 'I can do it' and, 'I want to touch it.'”
“A great director, first, is highly intelligent. And he is also a dedicated and willing to work hard. Now those are easy things to identify. The third is the creativity, and that is very difficult to identify in advance. This is why so many of the directors who have started with me were my assistant - the first one was Francis Ford Coppola.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.”
“Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.”
“Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you arenâ€™t.”
“Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.”

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