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our-world causes energy
...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes... Al Gore
our-world risk together
Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair. Ban Ki-moon
our-world years ideas
But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches. Albert Schweitzer
our-world people discouraged
Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people Dwight D. Eisenhower
our-world differences choices
Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world. Tom Hanks
our-world worry evil
What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important? Sam Harris
our-world years ignorant
Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. We knew from that moment that things can go terribly wrong in our world-not because life is unfair, or moral progress impossible, but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions of our ignorant ancestors.
our-world abuse different
Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.
our-world stories aging
Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries. Stephenie Meyer
years facts beverly-hills
When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.' Brett Ratner
years eight stories
I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.
years people effort
People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort. Brandon Sanderson
years looks moments
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning... Ayn Rand
years fifty analysis
The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. Benjamin Cardozo
years law voice
More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.
years sheep one-day
If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep! Benito Mussolini
years band nelson
Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is. Brad Paisley
years tabloids masters
I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all Brad Pitt
ignorant foe
An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe. Brian Herbert
ignorant
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. Barry Gibb
ignorant desire way
Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor. Elfriede Jelinek
ignorant happens
We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things. Albert Einstein
ignorant knows
When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge. Confucius
ignorant instinct partners
A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant. Ann Aguirre
ignorant minorities body
The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge. Thomas Huxley
ignorant suffering world
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world. Red Cloud
ignorant facts terrorism
Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts. Thomas Jefferson