#ding

The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#already #among #change #chief #climate

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in. ↗

— Jason Marsden

#certain #distracted #easily #extremely #grab

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

#am #began #called #defending #existence

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different. ↗

— John McCarthy

#although #boarding #courses #different #forbid

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#anyone #define #design #had #i

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about. ↗

— Ed McMahon

#all americans #caring #makes #need #our

I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#artificial #away #baby #because #been

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#belongs #boldly #building #engage #fact

To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat. ↗

— James Meade

#enjoying #essays #group #indeed #intellectual

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#fiscal-policy #national-debt #political-philosophy #scope-of-government #political