"Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time."

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Source : "Pål Brekke: Internationally renowned climate sceptic and solar expert". Interview with Siw Ellen Jacobsen, www.forskningsradet.no. February 29, 2008.

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“The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.”
“Every closet needs one comfortable stretchy pair of jeans, but I think the reason we have permission to do what we do is because that's already happened. Jeggings all look the same, but when you buy jeans from us, we make sure every pair has individuality.”
“For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.”
“Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.”

Source : "The Paternal Pride of Maurice Sendak" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1987.
“Where man is the end, or the means, all men are mean.”

Source : Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”
“If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.”

Source : Greg Child (1998). “Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas”, p.158, Mountaineers Books
“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.”
“Growing up in Middlesbrough [in England], I listened to artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Howlin' Wolf. It was like another world. Something happened to me when I heard that music. It leapt out of the speakers and went straight into my heart. And I thought, "Right, that's what I'm doing."”

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