"If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time."

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Source : "James Hansen: The One Thing We Should Be Doing to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change". Interview with Tara Lohan, www.alternet.org. April 24, 2013.

Achim Steiner

#Running Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Running Out Of Time Quotes

“No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.”
“Right, sure. Because there's no girls in politics! I have no interest. Voting? What? I forgot my apron. I think I ought to be in the kitchen right now, actually. My rolling pin-”
“Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.”

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“Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.”
“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”
“Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . . They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty . . . that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be the fundamental principle of the American government.”
“Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.”
“Focus group research has created a composite No-Man who resembles no-one anyone has ever met.”

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