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I'm against fashionable thinking.
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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the…
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I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.
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A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to…
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A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or…
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Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
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As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would…
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Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than…
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Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up…
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Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
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For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of…
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For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and…
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,…
— Diane Ackerman
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Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but…
— Edward Alsworth Ross
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The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the…
— John Burroughs
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Al Gore is coming out with a movie about global warming called ' An Inconvenient Truth. ' It's described as a detailed…
— Jay Leno
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Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back…
— Jimmy Buffett
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An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except…
— David Foreman
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The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the…
— Emily Oster
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...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us…
— Unknown Author
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Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.
— Sean William Scott
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The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery…
— Nigel Calder
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We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment…
— Jared Diamond
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