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Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind — Rajendra K. Pachauri
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic
As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is… — Jose Mujica
My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political way of thinking,… — Jose Mujica
You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You are only as good as the team you have behind you. — Jim Palmer
I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I… — Jackie Robinson
There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no… — Margaret Mead
It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through… — Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand to get a… — Ha-Joon Chang
Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation… — Abraham Lincoln
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation. . . . Let… — Bernard Baruch
Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If… — Anthony Mary Claret
The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. — E. M. Forster
Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled… — Stephen Levine
I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside. — Donald Hall
Just remember that a pat on the back is only 18 inches from a kick in the behind. — Rex W. Tillerson
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light,… — Edgar Mitchell
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. — Sidney Blumenthal
The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings. — Swami Vivekananda

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