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.
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Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.
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I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.
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Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.
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In our business, managing your labor costs is paramount.
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The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.
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Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
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Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.
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One of the beauties of B2B is that there is a finite number of customers. So the marketing costs are much different. You don't have to take out Super Bowl ads or plaster the New York subway system.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.
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I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.
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Workaholics are addicted to activity; super achievers are committed to results.
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Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades.
