"Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic product."

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Source : The report by Nicholas Stern, www.washingtonpost.com. October 31, 2006.

Nicholas Stern

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“I'm super hard on myself anytime I think of an idea for a collaboration. I will rack my brain trying to think of one. I wait for the right person. It stresses me to think that I'd do a collaboration with someone and not make it the best possible opportunity.”
“Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home”
“What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.”
“I smoke two cartons of unfiltered cigs and down a bottle of American rye whiskey as a warm up, generally. Then swallow beach sand and general aggregate to get some texture in the voice, followed by a stick of butter to smooth it all out. This works for me, but may not be for everyone.”
“I don't think I have any bad features.”
“November, I'll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you're the present beneath my Christmas tree.”
“The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.”
“Probably not for about 10 years, because I've got so much to do before then, but I really want to have four kids . . . I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia. It's such a good lifestyle.”

Source : "Margot Robbie makes it hard to Focus with VERY sexy Vogue Australia shoot" by Fay Strang, www.mirror.co.uk. February 15, 2015.

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