"As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet."

-- John Olver

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“I listen to old songs and remember exactly where I was living and where I recorded it and how I wrote it, the girl I was dating at the time or whatever.”

Source : Source: maroonweekly.com
“Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.”

Source : Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.33, Penguin UK
“That opinion that personal holiness is unnecessary to final glorification is in direct opposition to every dictate of reason; to every declaration of Scripture.”
“When it comes to make-up, I usually go au natural most of the time and opt for a basic blush, lip gloss and kohl for a day look.”
“Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.”

Source : "Gr8 db8r takes on linguistic luddites" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2008.
“I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones who seem to have destiny falling habitually into their laps. If they're anything like the fortunate people I know, they're prepared, they're always working at their craft, they're alert, they involve their friends in their work, and they tend to make others feel lucky to be around them.”
“You know, it doesnâ€™t matter how beautiful you are, if you donâ€™t have anything interesting to say, then youâ€™re still boring.”
“Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed-guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.”

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