#mm

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#change #clearly #climate #climate change #community

There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#already #associated #both #communities #crop

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations. ↗

— John Banville

#death #grief #immortality #life-goes-on #loss

In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork. ↗

— Ina Garten

#body #comforting #fresh #go #light

The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#best friend #craziest #did #friend #get

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#characteristic #commonplace #hour #impose #itself

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. ↗

— Bill Gates

#employers #few #find #get #helping

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#common man #demands #distinguish #excellent #excellent man

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in. ↗

— Bill Gates

#achieve #any #believer #each #effects

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. ↗

— Bill Gates

#become #communication #created #creativity #empowering