"The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it."

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Source : "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

Michael E. Mann

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“Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now, has long been seen as a phase which centers on the fusion of sexual and social maturity. Indeed, adolescence as a concept has as long a history as that of puberty, which is sometimes considered more concrete, and hence much easier to name and to recognize.”
“Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.”

Source : "Barbra Streisand: The Legend" by Sheila Weller, www.glamour.com. October 30, 2013.
“He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.”
“How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?”

Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.107, Macmillan
“Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.”
“The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network.”

Source : "Mark Burnett Brings Reality TV to the Web" by Jonathan Silverstein, abcnews.go.com. January 31, 2006.
“The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.”
“Concentrate on the goodness in the other, rather than the difference.”

Source : Franz Wisner (2009). “How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom”, p.74, Macmillan

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