Why Quotes
22640 quotes by 9675 authors
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Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so…
— Kyra Sedgwick
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Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations…
— Naomi Oreskes
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Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the…
— Margot Wallstrom
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We must make democracy the popular creed...If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer... That is what my father said.…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run…
— Francis Bacon
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A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had…
— Marcus Buckingham
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Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your…
— Lidia Yusupova
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For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why…
— Irene Khan
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I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They are not-in Montgomery.…
— Paul Robeson
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The only thing to worry about is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because they feel that…
— Unknown Author
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I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has…
— Michael Myers
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'Scientific' computer simulations predict global warming based on increased greenhouse gas emissions over time. However, without water's contribution taken into account they omit the largest…
— Michael Myers
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Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC....The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade and the…
— Unknown Author
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Focus first on where you want to be, and why, and then on the right path to get there.
— Mark Halperin
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I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am…
— Jeremy Paxman
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I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce…
— Alan Titchmarsh
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I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade. If you don't understand what the cause is, it's virtually impossible to come up with…
— Joe Biden
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