Thomas Schelling Quotes

• There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

  Thomas Schelling

  Planning, Tendencies, Unfamiliar

  "America at Risk: Two Novels President Obama Should Read". www.foxnews.com. March 31, 2009.

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• I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

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  Opportunity, Games, Use

  "American, Israeli Share Nobel Prize in Economics". www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2005.

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• When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a lot harder now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts.

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  Nuclear, Unions, Today

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• I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change.

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  Years, People, Wish

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• I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.

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  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

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• Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses.

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  Kyoto Protocol, Giving, House

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