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If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#century #challenge #change #climate #climate change

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#air pollution #been #coastal #cut #dramatically

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#anything #besides #child #children #divorce

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#believed #daughter #encouragement #forming #helpful

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently. ↗

— Richard McCabe

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Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#common people #democracy #deserve #get #good

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#make #nothing #rules #since #them

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do. ↗

— Don Johnson

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I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

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