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• ...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was it because the heat was buried in the ocean and sequestered, perhaps well below the surface?...Perhaps all of these things are going on?

  Kevin E. Trenberth

  Ocean, Ice, Sea

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• Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.

  Kevin E. Trenberth

  Energy, Facts, Global Warming

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• The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water for 40% of the world's population...Within the next half-century, that 40% of the world's people may well face a very serious drinking water shortage, unless the world acts boldly and quickly to mitigate global warming.

  Al Gore

  Drinking, People, Water

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• ...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.

  Angela Merkel

  Risk, Energy, Climate

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• ...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific debate among serious people who've looked at the science...Well, I guess in some quarters, there's still a debate over whether the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, or whether the Earth is flat instead of round.

  Al Gore

  Science, Moon, People

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• The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.

  Al Gore

  Science, Oil, Atmosphere

  Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.263, Rodale

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• Access to supercomputers. The science is well ahead of our ability to implement it. It's quite clear that if we could run our models at a higher resolution we could do a much better job-tomorrow-in terms of our seasonal and decadal predictions. It's so frustrating. We keep saying we need four times the computing power. We're talking just 10 or 20 million a year-dollars or pounds-which is tiny compared to the damage done by disasters. Yet it's a difficult argument to win.

  Julia Slingo

  Running, Jobs, Winning

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• And then you see right away it may well happen that you enter a decade or maybe even two, when the temperature cools relative to the present level...I'm definitely not one of the skeptics...However, we have to ask the nasty questions ourselves, or some other people will do it.

  Mojib Latif

  Two, People, Energy

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• I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' till I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your restroom is not inside the house.

  B. B. King

  Money, Men, House

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• I've never done work for money, ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

  Tom Cruise

  Money, Mean, Choices

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• We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing.

  Bill Blass

  Fashion, Reality, Perception

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• It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.

  John Stewart Bell

  Believe, Improvement, Failing

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• I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

  Pat Roberts

  War, Hands, Realizing

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• We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, our spears for farm tools...now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us through the Crucified One....The more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers.

  Justin Martyr

  Kindness, War, Numbers

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• Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Spiritual, Keys, Enlightenment

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• Having been a cheerleader, I know all too well what these girls give up to join forces and compete.

  Kelly Ripa

  Girl, Giving Up, Cheerleading

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• Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive.

  Jean-Paul Aron

  Water, Seductive, Temptation

  Jean Paul Aron (1975). “Art of Eating in France: Manners and Menus in the 19th Century”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Believe, Sleep, Men

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• If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Mean, Opportunity, Preparation

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2014). “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

  Gordon Parks

  Beautiful, Thinking, Years

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• Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fact that you must follow your passion and do something that's close to your heart. And I think that that's very important, well, to be successful and to be happy.

  Kumar Mangalam Birla

  Passion, Heart, Successful

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. April 6, 2011.

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• I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

  Dean Cain

  Golden, Living My Life, Live And Let Live

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

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• Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

  Alexis Bledel

  Stress, People, Directors

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 8, 2002.

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• Necessity does everything well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.265, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this," well, that would be enough immortality for me.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Dirty, Mean, Years

  "Introducing a course on calculi" by Edsger Dijkstra, August 30, 1995.

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