Jamais Cascio Quotes
Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
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I'm very close to my family.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get that I will be joyful.' And we say, until you are joyful, you will not get that. You must start with the decision-with the determination-with the insistence that, 'I will not settle for less than feeling good.'
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Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.
