As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Sinclair Lewis

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

Arthur Henderson

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Napoleon Bonaparte

People talk a lot about all the homosexuals there are to see in Greenwich Village, but it was all the neuters that caught my eye that day. These were my people -- as used as I was to wanting love from nowhere, as certain as I was that almost anything desirable was likely to be booby-trapped.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

B. C. Forbes

When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back.

YingAn

Love always triumphs over what we call death. That's why there's no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.

Paulo Coelho

I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Steven Wright

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Mahatma Gandhi

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

John Abbott