"The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the damages from global warming. The reasons are that, because there is so much inertia in the climate system and because the Protocol reduced the global temperature increase by only a fraction of a degree over the next century."

“We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.”

“Victory is very, very sweet. It tastes better than any dessert you've ever had.”

Source : Source: www.bonappetit.com

“Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.”

Source : "Jean Dubuffet, Works, writings Interviews". Book by Fabrice Hergott, p. 14, 2006.

“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”

“Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None of your meek, gentle, nonsensical, shilly-shallying snow-storms; not the sort where the flakes float lazily down from the sky as if they didn't care whether they ever got here or not, and then melt away as soon as they touch the earth, but a regular business-like whizzing, whirring, blurring, cutting snow-storm, warranted to freeze and stay on!”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN – Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales and Poems for Children (Illustrated): Including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm & Penelope Hamilton Series: Rose o' the River, A Summer in a Cañon, The Birds' Christmas Carol, Timothy's Quest, The Arabian Nights, Golden Numbers & many more”, p.1409, e-artnow

“So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.”

“Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?”

Source : Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: a tribute”

“Everybody needs love. There are a lot of guys that you think are hard-core gangsters, but all these guys' weaknesses are women. Look at the movie Scarface. At the end of the day, all he wanted to do was to have kids with his woman.”