"Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades"

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Source : Nicholas Stern, Great Britain. Treasury (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.319, Cambridge University Press

Nicholas Stern

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“I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.”
“The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference.”
“Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail,”
“The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.”
“I tried to exploit such freedom to create those drawings like if I was a boy. I tried to draw with that freedom and that love that I remember from being a child and spending a day drawing without worrying about whether what I'm drawing is real or strange.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of its wonders is among the noblest poetry of the race, but today the new science has opened to our eyes vistas of mystery that transcend in their inexplicable marvel anything the ancients ever dreamed.”
“Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.”

Source : Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.30, CLC Publications
“Each person comes to have this musical experience, this moment with us, where they get to sink into our world for a little while. Itâ€™s this very unhurried world. Itâ€™s fairly quiet, itâ€™s contemplative, but it can be quite panoramic. I think people think interesting thoughts at our shows, and they go rather deeply into some personal experience of their own. Iâ€™m really proud that our music seems to connect, because itâ€™s not for everybody. But for the people that our music works for, it really gets down pretty deep in there.”

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