"I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data."

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Source : "Jeremy Grantham on population growth, China and climate sceptics" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2013.

Jeremy Grantham

#Powerful Quotes #Data Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.”
“Is it to be imagined ... that women were made for no other purpose than to fabricate sweetmeats and gingerbread, construct shirts, darn stockings, and become mothers of possible presidents? Assuredly not. Should the women of America ever discover what their power might be, and compare it with what it is, much improvement might be hoped for.”

Source : Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.225
“I have personally been affected by women's reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.”

Source : Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.336
“A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.”
“I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.”
“In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.”
“The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden when the moon shines.”

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