11th Hour Quotes

• President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, President, Hoaxes

  "Clint Eastwood talks about convention chat with chair". www.foxnews.com. September 7, 2012.

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• The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.

  Kenny Ausubel

  Mass Destruction, Economic Globalization, Weapons

  "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
  Loved and were loved, and now we lie
  In Flanders fields.

  John McCrae

  Lying, Sunset, Dawn

  John McCrae (2015). “In Flanders Fields and Other Poems”, p.20, Dundurn

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• What if we choose to eradicate ourselves from this Earth, by whatever means? The Earth goes nowhere. And in time, it will regenerate... There may not be people, but the Earth will regenerate. And you know why? - Because the Earth has all the time in the world and we don't.

  Oren Lyons

  Mean, People, What If

  "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

  John McCrae

  Blow, Gun, Sky

  Punch 8 Dec. 1915 "In Flanders Fields"

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• In Flanders fields the poppies blow.

  John McCrae

  Blow, Fields, Poppies

  "In Flanders Fields" l. 1 (1915)

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• The larks, still bravely singing, fly
  Scarce heard amid the guns below

  John McCrae

  Gun, Singing, Poppies

  'In Flanders Fields' (1915)

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• Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

  John McCrae

  Fall, Hands, Quarrels

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• An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  Van Cliburn

  Music, Artist, Might

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• Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.

  Bo Jackson

  May, Hours, Repent

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• It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The [11th Hour] movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Ocean, Loss, Personal Transformation

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• We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge.

  Al Gore

  War, Struggle, Sacrifice

  Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

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• We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Love, Evil, Balance

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?

  Al Gore

  Real, Fate, Challenges

  Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

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