#war

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#city #dreams #embraces #encourages #everyone

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#city #dreams #embraces #encourages #everyone

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#business #family #family background #heavily #matters

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#between #cannot #forward #gap #go

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#being #effort #get #got #people

The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#aside #been #biologists #consistently #dangers

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#facing #global #global warming #harm #idea

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#global #global warming #hysteria #i #i see

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#bad times #been #being #better #better off

The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved. ↗

— George Dzundza

#becoming #beings #better #charms #condition