"We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm."

-- Nicholas Stern

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“Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.”
“Whenever I have a birthday, I think back over the past year, how I've spent my time, what I've accomplished, what regrets I have, how I've tried to make the world a better place, and what exactly I've been doing with my life over the past 365 days, and I think to myself: 'Man, I wish I'd gotten laid more'.”
“When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.”
“No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.”
“I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.”
“I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better.”

Source : "5 Simple Lessons From 40 Years At The Same Job" by Dave Bookbinder, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2016.
“If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.”
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”

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