"We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century."

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Source : "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

Bjorn Lomborg

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“I'm a DJ. I get the party started.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The secret to success: Do what you say you're going to do.”
“However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.”
“Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream...”

Source : Ernest Dowson (2015). “The Poems of Ernest Dowson”, p.51, Read Books Ltd
“I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.”
“Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them.”
“Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when oneâ€™s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?”
“There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.”

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