"Nature is not simply a technical or economical……" — James Buchan
"Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic."
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65 Quotes by James Buchan
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Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
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A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as…
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a…
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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
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Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none…
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Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control…
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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit…
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
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All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
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When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
— Bono
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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know…
— Philip Yancey
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It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behaviour that compromises…
— Simon Mainwaring
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Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.
— Lawrence Bossidy
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It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those…
— Cintra Wilson
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As we strive to align our attitudes and actions with righteousness, then the Holy Ghost becomes for us today what…
— David A. Bednar
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What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If…
— Walter Lippmann
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When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves…
— Barack Obama
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Your mind, emotions and body are instruments and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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We have the opportunity now to join in the celebration of possibility, to align ourselves with the forces of life.…
— Velcrow Ripper
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