"Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither."

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Source : "James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 7, 2017.

James Hansen

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“It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes to alter this state of affairs, because I find no consensus of opinion as to which are the superfluous books ...”

Source : Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.187, Routledge
“It's always great to get to do what you love and to do something that hopefully people will see and love.”

Source : "Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael Talk ASS BACKWARDS, Combining a Road Trip and Beauty Pageant, Finding a Director, and Upcoming Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 8, 2013.
“God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.”
“I'm very hip-oriented. I focus on hips in my comedy - probably more than any other hipster comic who is out there hipping today. My hips, other hips. I work with my hips a great deal. That is what I do. But not in a gay way.”
“Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.”
“When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?”

Source : "Puerto Rican model Joan Smalls breaks down color barriers, one runway at a time" by Emanuella Grinberg, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.
“Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.”
“Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.”

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