Would Be Quotes
9158 Would Be quotes by 5066 unique authors
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The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place has been absolutely…
— Peter Costello
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I passionately disagreed with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to bail out the banks by using a public fund called the Troubled Asset Relief Program…
— George Soros
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In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a…
— Meg Whitman
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It's important to save your money. We need it for the long haul but too many Americans don't save and don't invest. It used to…
— Michael Douglas
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I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse…
— Augustus William Hare
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If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the warming process might…
— Stephen Hawking
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Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation"…
— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
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My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full…
— David Foreman
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I would be remiss, as a scientist who studied this, if I didn't mention the following two things: The first is that, most importantly, we…
— John Miller
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Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would…
— Susan Blackmore
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THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.
— Robert Orben
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It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has…
— Madame de Stael
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The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and…
— Charles Dickens
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The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
— Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
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If you want to know what an ultimate goal would be, of course it would be utter peace.
— David Miscavige
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Several respected climate scientists have told me that there would be even more vocal skeptics if they were not afraid of losing funding, much of…
— Peter Friedman
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Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just one percent. That would be like turning…
— Rupert Murdoch
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Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun…
— Timothy Ball
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And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of…
— Upton Sinclair
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An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get a large enough…
— Rajendra K. Pachauri
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We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's…
— Al Gore
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Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the…
— Unknown Author
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I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits,…
— Gary Becker
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I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
— Horace Greeley
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We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's older than the world. We…
— Jose Mujica
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