"The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon."

-- James Hansen

#Sea Quotes #World Quotes #Levels Quotes

“Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.”
“The world keeps turnin' It gets merry like a merry go 'round It gets cold like a frozen winter Well I change like summer fall But I know love is all in all Seeds we're always sowing The grace is always blowing We've just got to lift the sail And we're bound to hit the shore We'll finally calm this storm.”

Source : Song: The World Keeps Turning
“I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used”

Source : Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.
“The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.”
“Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.”
“A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.”
“My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.”
“I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.”

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