Nicholas Herbert Stern (Nicholas Stern) Quotes
Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades.
Nicholas Herbert Stern
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Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
Jack Whittaker
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Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Those high oil prices are a burden on U.S. families, on firms' production costs. But the good news is that at least so far the U.S. economy has not been slowed by the high energy prices.
Ben Bernanke
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The International Health Partnership Plus is addressing the need to harmonize development assistance and reduce the current waste, duplication, and high transaction costs.
Margaret Chan
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In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Hope costs nothing.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.
Beatrice M. Hinkle
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I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it.
Cate Blanchett
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Whatever it costs, we need to incur that cost to provide that world-class care to an extraordinary group of men and women in harm's way.
Anthony Principi
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The ACE study group concluded: “Although widely understood to be harmful to health, each adaptation such as smoking, drinking, drugs, obesity is notably difficult to give up. Little consideration is given to the possibility that many long-term health risks might also be personally beneficial in the short term. We repeatedly hear from patients of the benefits of these ‘health risks.’ The idea of the problem being a solution, while understandably disturbing to many, is certainly in keeping with the fact that opposing forces routinely coexist in biological systems. . . . What one sees, the presenting problem, is often only the marker for the real problem, which lies buried in time, concealed by patient shame, secrecy and sometimes amnesia—and frequently clinician discomfort.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
