"Wishful thinking is not sound public policy."

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Source : "Don’t Freak Out". www.nationalreview.com. May 14, 2008.

Bjorn Lomborg

#Thinking Quotes #Sound Quotes #Policy Quotes

“Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.”
“You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.”
“I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.”
“A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.”
“Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.”
“When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.”
“I can play a power game, but I also have the ability to step it up to another level and hit shots even further on call.”
“Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.”

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