"Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then"

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Source : "Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change - it's far, far worse'" by Heather Stewart and Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

Nicholas Stern

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“It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.”
“Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.”
“Cheap liquor is a magic potion that can turn you into a puppet cowboy before it kills you.”
“If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.”
“And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous.”
“It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.”
“We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.”

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