"Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace."

-- Margaret Beckett

#Climate Quotes #Pace Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.”

Source : "Arthur Hiller, Director of 'Love Story,' Dies at 92" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 17, 2016.
“Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 638-39, quoted on the title page of Broom's Legal Maxims (1911), 1922.
“You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.”
“The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.”
“The reason I go for the designers is because they make me feel good. It's about finding clothes that make you feel good as a woman. If I like it, I'll wear it. You have to go with your instincts and not be led by trends.”
“In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of oneâ€™s grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy.”
“He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.”

Source : Richard Kadrey (2007). “Butcher Bird”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
“The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.”

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