Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's something that we as a species are hardwired for or if it's more of a contemporary phenomenon… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.… — Janice Rogers Brown Copy Share Image
There are a few societies that show signs of having been very rational about the physics of construction and the physics of… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
According to my observation,a batteau, properly manned, shoots rapids as a matter of course, which a single Indian with a canoe carries… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all. — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society ,… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I worry about women globally. When we talk about having a presidential candidate who would tear up the Paris accords, who doesn't… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or… — Ernest Thompson Seton Copy Share Image
Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes...… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I remember at the time, there were all these teen movies being made. It was this resurgence of John Hughes-esque teen comedies.… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very… — Walter Bradford Cannon Copy Share Image
...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and… — Zhang Xiaogang Copy Share Image
As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies… — Austin Ligon Copy Share Image
The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
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