"Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works."

-- George Monbiot

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“It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.”
“I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.”
“Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.”
“Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”
“I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.”
“Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.”

Source : Sir Humphry Davy (1812). “Elements of Chemical Philosophy”, p.54
“It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.”
“At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no more tinkering. The dog is the perfect beast, companion, friend, shoulder to lean on, and scapegoat when too many cookies are missing. And a dog won't hold that against you, either. I am at peace sitting in silence with a dog.”

Source : Rick Springfield (2010). “Late, Late at Night”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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