Decades Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling its lethality every few years. And the result is that we are outdistancing not merely the capabilities of our enemies but our allies as well - many of whom who have not fought in decades - at such a dizzying pace that our sheer destructive power makes it hard to work with others in joint operations.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Military, Fighting, Technology

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• Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New York, and Yemen - suggest to our terrorist enemies that it was wrong and unwise to kill reasonable and affable people, or did the easy killing imply that self-absorbed and pampered Lotus-eaters would not much care who or how many were butchered as long as it was within reasonable numbers and spread out over time?

  Victor Davis Hanson

  New York, Past, Numbers

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• If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.

  Ben Bernanke

  Typical, Population, Generations

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• Ever since I left Greece more than two decades ago, it has been my dream to return and perform at the Acropolis. This project took more than a year and a half to plan and accomplish, and I would like to thank my band and crew and the scores of people involved in helping my dream become a reality.

  Yanni

  Dream, Reality, Years

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• The skill sets it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, a successful marketer, or a relevant celebrity is a different skill set than you needed ten years ago, even though that was the skill set that mattered for decades.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Successful, Years, Skills

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• Every baby born
  unloved, unwanted, is a bill that will come
  due in twenty years with interest, an anger
  that must find a target, a pain that will
  beget pain. A decade downstream a child
  screams, a woman falls, a synagogue is torched,
  a firing squad is summoned, a button
  is pushed and the world burns.

  Marge Piercy

  Baby, Children, Pain

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• I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

  Robert Wyatt

  Business, Thinking, People

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• As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so that they can be tested by observation.  He will realize that the history of human thought shows that the ideas of which we are surest are the ones we most need to test.  He will realize that his common sense only mirrors his training and experience.  What seems natural and right to him is usually a reflection of the conditions under which he spent his first decade of life.

  Jacque Fresco

  Reflection, Men, Ideas

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• I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

  Sean Lennon

  Years, Film, Mediums

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

  Fiona Shaw

  Generations, Obsession, Obsessed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

  Michael Kinsley

  Usa, Political, Half

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• With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Baby, Couple, Giving

  "Let's give older mothers a break". www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of this culture that automatically valorizes anyone who wears a uniform. How dare you insult a soldier! Like its some sacred calling instead of an imperial employment program steeped in the culture of machismo and misogyny.(And you can gasp as theatrically as you want I spent more than two decades wearing a uniform that is exactly what it is.)

  Stan Goff

  Ducks, June, Two

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• By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Reality, Eyeglasses, Woven

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.143, Penguin

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• I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

  Fiona Shaw

  Hot, Next, Born

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In 1942 Cachao wrote a tune for Arcao, 'Rareza de Melitn,' with a memorable catchy tumbao. In 1957 Arcao recorded a reworking of it under the name 'Chanchullo'; and in 1962 Tito Puente reworked that into 'Oye como va,' still with that same groove. In this form, audibly the same, it powered Carlos Santana's multiplatinum 1970 cover version, close to three decades after Cachao first played it.

  Ned Sublette

  Memorable, Names, Firsts

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• If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'

  Vince Gilligan

  Karma, Girlfriend, Hate

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• I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

  Li Keqiang

  Mold, Students, Explosions

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• You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

  Bob Dole

  Jobs, Wall, War

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• I could cut my leg off. I could cut my arm off. I could gouge an eye out. I'd still probably survive. But not very well. And that's what we're doing to the oceans. It's the life-support system of this planet. We've been dumping in it. We've been polluting it. We've been destroying it for decades. And we're essentially maiming ourselves.

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

  Ocean, Eye, Cutting

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• When we stopped to rest and Tony tried to figure out what was wrong with his compass, I asked him what he thought it was about orchids that seduced humans so completely that they were compelled to steal them and worship them and try to breed new and specific kinds of them and then be willing to wait for nearly a decade for one of them to flower.

  Susan Orlean

  Flower, Orchids, Waiting

  Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

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• Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Perfection, People, Greed

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• Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy, individualism and wit. His daily radio show is the one reliable place ordinary citizens can turn to for a different perspective in the blizzard of propaganda and disinformation from the Northeastern media establishment. History will show that Limbaugh was a major force over the past decade in waking this country up from its p.c. coma.

  Camille Paglia

  Country, Past, Media

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• In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Talking, Skills, Academia

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