"While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in the conversations. The tipping points seem to be racing towards us a lot faster than people thought."

-- Gwynne Dyer

#People Quotes #Racing Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.”
“Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.”

Source : "Rants & Raves", www.wired.com. November 25, 2002.
“In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.”
“I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.”

Source : David Adams Richards (2002). “Mercy Among the Children: A Novel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster
“I think with President Obama there's going to be a discussion, because he himself is multiracial, because we have for the first time a non-white president. There's going to be talk about what does this mean? What is it? Are we in a new era?”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.”
“Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success.”

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