"You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there would be a serious threat to the water flow down the Nile on which 10 countries depend."

-- Nicholas Stern

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“Six Flags has to be a destination, but it's got to be a place that you want to go to every single summer and you don't want to go just for a roller coaster or a new ride. We have to sell the experience and sell the image: clean, safe, friendly and fun. The parks are not necessarily all of those attributes, but they will be.”
“The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.”
“Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.”

Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.112, Transaction Publishers
“Can't you tell when you're with someone who's listening? She hears you, really hears you. He hears the sadness in your tone or catches your joy. Be a listener, to music, to life, to others, to God. Life is noisy, but there is music in every heartbeat. God is waiting to bring joy and peace to the confusion of our days.”

Source : Sheila Walsh (1999). “Bring Back the Joy: Rekindling the Joy in Your Relationship with God”, Zondervan Publishing Company
“This is my first summer [with] no trouble. I ain't go to jail for speeding. Didn't go to jail for DUI. I didn't break my foot. I didn't break my other foot. I'm one step ahead of the game already.”
“Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.”
“The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?”
“The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.”

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