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Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister. ↗

— John Sebastian

#distracted #get #girl #her #kiss

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#america #black #black and white #injustice #learn

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#analysis #been #careful #centuries #changes

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#because #become #cannot #changing #climate

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win. ↗

— Max McKeown

#change #change-the-world #improvement #strategy #success-self-improvement

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#causes #good #larger #people #than

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#georgia #humor #southern #education

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#inside #lots #national #nations #own

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#actually #always #american #attitude #believe

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences. ↗

— Josefa Iloilo

#differences #forge #i #our #out