"The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response"

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Source : "Buying carbon credits cost-effective and necessary". www.irishtimes.com. December 14, 2006.

Nicholas Stern

#Risk Quotes #Demand Quotes #Serious Quotes

“It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.”

Source : Emma Bull (2004). “War for the Oaks: A Novel”, p.251, Macmillan
“One of the reasons that the Ramones were so unique and original was that they were four original, unique people.”
“Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say next?' That is just what I do; I ask Him that at every line He would give me not merely thoughts and power, but also every word, even the very rhymes.”
“For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look!”
“Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior.”

Source : Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books
“Many are called but few get up.”

Source : Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.16, BookRix
“He who commands the sea has command of everything.”
“For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.”

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