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- Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction out of all proportion to any…
- Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
- Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down…
- There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you…
- The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population…
- Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
- Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can…
- At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world…
- When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum…
- The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need…
- Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil companies extract it from the ground in…
- I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide