"Any climate scientist will tell you that an unusually warm month - or even a whole warm winter - doesn't mean much. It's the long-term trend that counts."

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Source : "For Russian Farmers, Climate Change Is Nyet So Great". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

Corey Flintoff

#Mean Quotes #Winter Quotes #Long Quotes

“Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for the moment when things do start clicking, but that doesn't happen a lot. I really have to push myself sometimes. Painting is a profession in which it is very easy to be lazy, particularly if you have any degree of success.”
“I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children.”
“Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?”
“How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.”
“This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past.”

Source : "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 6: "The Little Apocrypha", p. 72, 1970.
“The Internet is not a place. Itâ€™s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.”
“A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.”

Source : 1977 In the NewYork Times, 2 Oct.
“When you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected. It hurts us all.”

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