Decades Quotes - Page 15

• In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn’t thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like: ‘I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes …

  Melissa McCarthy

  Hair, Wish, Tears

  "Melissa McCarthy's Emotional Interview: Finding Love, Coping with Critics and Becoming a Star – Her Way". Interview with Kate Coyne, people.com. June 25, 2014.

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• We should all be aware of the fact that when revolutionary - not evolutionary - changes come, things can get even worse. The intelligentsia should be aware of this. And it is the intelligentsia specifically that should keep this in mind and prevent society from radical steps and revolutions of all kinds. We've had enough of it. We've seen so many revolutions and wars. We need decades of calm and harmonious development.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Gay, Mind

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• Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very alive business leader, entertainer, artist or sports star. The most effective of these patrons begin the process of giving by asking what they care about passionately.

  Michael Milken

  Sports, Stars, Artist

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• While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.

  Steven Chu

  Running, Risk, Climate

  Letter from Secretary Steven Chu to Energy Department Employees, energy.gov. February 01, 2013.

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• We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts based on poverty, discrimination and exclusion (social, economic and political) that continue to plague humanity and destroy decades of development efforts. The vicious circle of human rights violations that lead to conflicts-which in turn lead to more violations-must be broken. I believe we can break it only by ensuring respect for all human rights.

  Mary Robinson

  Believe, Rights, Circles

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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 coldest of the millennium...which is why 'global warming' is now called 'climate change.'

  Richard Keen

  Climate, Earth, Temperature

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• The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.

  Barack Obama

  Atmosphere, Truth Is, Pollution

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come.

  Barack Obama

  Growth, Energy, Clean

  "US power sector to cut carbon emissions by 30% by 2030". "AM", www.abc.net.au. June 3, 2014.

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• For a theory to be scientific it must be capable of being refuted by the evidence. Given that we have had three decades of rising temperature followed by a decade of stable and slightly falling temperatures worldwide, how many decades would you require before you are convinced that the theory on which you are committing £400bn of taxpayers' money might be slightly wrong?

  Peter Lilley

  Fall, Rising, Might

  House of Commons debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. June 4, 2009.

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• Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

  Nicholas Stern

  Mean, Climate, Cost

  Nicholas Stern, Great Britain. Treasury (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.319, Cambridge University Press

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• Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Air, Wings, Next

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• Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to a level of food price volatility we haven't seen since the oil crisisof 40 years ago. Unfortunately, this could be just a taste of things to come because in the next few decades the build-up of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere could greatly increase the risk of droughts, flooding, pest infestation and water scarcity for agriculture systems already under tremendous stress.

  John Beddington

  Stress, Weather, Oil

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• With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Drama, Lasts, Century

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Country, Past, Two

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• I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.

  Harold Hamm

  Believe, Yield, Years

  "Birth Of A Wildcatter - How Harold Hamm Got His Start". www.forbes.com. December 6, 2012.

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• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

  Fritz Todt

  Engineering, Building, Accusation

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June, 1935.

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• We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

  Samuel Wilson

  Environmental Health, Achievement, Important

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• The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.

  James Hansen

  Men, Climate, Next

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• It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being able to say that the world will be warmer by about a quarter of a degree in the next decade. It's the same reason we had 10 years ago when we said that the 1990s would be warmer than the 1980s: The planet is out of equilibrium.

  James Hansen

  Years, Degrees, Would Be

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• The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Hate, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.

  Stephanie Mills

  Cutting, Past, Vocabulary

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.130, Island Press

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• A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7.7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty.

  Clive James

  Country, World, Developing Countries

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• Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

  Hermann Weyl

  Lasts, Mathematics, Generalities

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• If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America`s gluttony on fossil fuel.

  John F. Kerry

  Moon, America, Fossils

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• In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.

  Robert Briffault

  Running, Jobs, Taken

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