Eban Goodstein Quotes
Stabilizing the climate is not about saving the human species... Stabilizing the climate is a precious opportunity to pass on to all future human beings gifts of immense value, gifts that, once gone, will be beyond the imagination and skill of humanity to recreate.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
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The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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Otherwise it was quiet-that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn.
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I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.
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‘Here we go again,’ he thought. ‘Drink and reminiscence. Another day of wasted time. They’re right when they say we drink too much out here. And we slobber too much over ourselves....We’re all sorry for ourselves because we’re not big executives or artists or happily married men in a civilized temperate climate.’
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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
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I know that I'm a role model for a lot of people, and I'd like to be. I know that there are people who probably don't agree with how I think or how I see myself and my place in this world. That's OK.
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Clothes that are too tight make you look bigger. If you've been trying to shed pounds, and it doesn't go, buy the next size up. I never care what size my clothes are.
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Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Stabilizing the climate is not about saving the human species... Stabilizing the climate is a precious opportunity to pass on to all future human beings gifts of immense value, gifts that, once gone, will be beyond the imagination and skill of humanity to recreate.
