"Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity."

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Steven Pinker

#Waste Quotes #Climate Quotes #Scarcity Quotes

“I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it.”

Source : Pat Heim, Tammy Hughes, Susan K. Golant (2015). “Hardball for Women: Winning at the Game of Business: Third Edition”, p.177, Penguin
“WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars...”
“[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.”
“Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.”
“These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless and they can't be learned; they can only be felt.”
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.”
“I went with my very being toward language.”
“You make your own choices, Kira, and you canâ€™t let anyone ever take that away from you.”

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