"We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right"

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John Banham

#Mean Quotes #Decision Quotes #Danger Quotes

“The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.”

Source : "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.
“The really valuable thing about documenting coral bleaching is that it is this straight, very direct visual indicator of how hot the oceans are getting. If the temperature of the water passes a certain threshold, the corals turn white. It's that simple. There's nothing natural about the cycle that's going on right now. In 2016, we lost 29 percent of the Great Barrier Reef. So 29 percent of the Great Barrier Reef died in a single year, because the water was hot.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.”

Source : Kevin Rudd (2017). “Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007”, p.299, Macmillan Publishers Aus.
“Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.”
“Maybe tweeting is a more appealing method of getting your thoughts out to the masses a little bit more often. That's the only way I consider it. Otherwise, I do it for the fans' purposes; it's definitely not to try to empty my brain out to anybody else.”

Source : "A CL interview with Joe Maddon on the Rays' chances, Manny & Johnny, "defensive-ectomy," the bullpen and skinny jeans". Interview with Kevin Tall, www.cltampa.com. April 1, 2011.
“I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.”
“For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.”

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