"Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed by officials, academics, or economists who know every science but the science of human nature."

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Source : Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.238, Vintage Canada

Jean Chretien

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“Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.”

Source : Mike Hulme (2013). “Exploring Climate Change Through Science and in Society: An Anthology of Mike Hulme's Essays, Interviews and Speeches”, p.88, Routledge
“The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the sphere of human attainments, who are unregenerate or unspiritual, to dictate as to what her beliefs shall be.”

Source : Lewis Sperry Chafer (1947). “Systematic Theology”
“I don't like my wrestling or entertainment in general to be too clean or predictable for me as a fan. When I say clean, I'm not talking about dirty jokes, middle fingers and stuff like that. I'm actually not even a big fan of that. A lot of people talk about the attitude era being so great but a lot of it was terrible crap, sex jokes and over-the-top terrible bad comedy. It was Jerry Springer-like. They made a joke about a woman's breasts. Hilarious, but where's the wrestling? I look back on a lot of stuff now, and I'm like where's the wrestling? It's just a lot of crappy jokes.”

Source : "Dean Ambrose Thinks John Cena’s As Boring And Predictable As The Rest Of Us Do" by Brandon Stroud, uproxx.com. October 10, 2014.
“Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.”
“Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.”
“I don't need equal time, I am equal time!”
“If the cross shows me that I am far worse than I had ever imagined, it also shows me that my evil has been absorbed and forgiven. If the worst thing any human can do is kill God's son, and that can be forgiven, then how can anything else not be forgiven?”

Source : Rebecca Manley Pippert (1991). “Hope has its reasons: surprised by faith in a broken world”, Harpercollins
“Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.”

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