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Pick a quote and apply a current example to show it is true
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"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Example: The Theory of Relativity
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I am more interested in how we will live with the change not some hype about why it is happening.
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Off the top of my head I believe the numbers were (.02%) And yes that is the millions of tones of carbon and all that.
I don't believe that is enough to alter our environment in any meaningful way. But Nick, It doesn't need to change that much to cause drastic changes. True very true. But I still believe this is the nature and the norm of planetary climate change.
Another thing to look at is that our increase in temp couples perfectly with the temp increases displayed throughout all the other planets in the Sol system. So if you expect me to believe with no proof that it is us and not the sun, then that means you expect me to believe the other 8 planets house man made factories pumping out greenhouse gases.
Ok so that last line was a bit snarky but do you see where I am going? Without real proof, not some half baked poorly researched explanation, I will not sign on to the hype.
But this thread is about quotes and there application to our lives today... so I will try and come up with one.
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"The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences."AL GORE, speech at National Sierra Club Convention, Sept. 9, 2005
Example: In direct contradiction to Timothy F. Ball, former Professor of Geography, University of Winnipeg: "[The world's climate:] warmed from 1680 up to 1940, but since 1940 it's been cooling down. The evidence for warming is because of distorted records.
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— Douglas Adams
Do I need to give examples? I think it is pretty obvious.
"Give a man a fire and you warm him for a day. Set a man on fire and you warm him for the rest of his life..."-Douglas Adams
Hey, I'm Buddhist, insert you're own tasteless self-immolation joke here...
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."Sir Winston Churchill
Example: The Iraq War
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::shakes fist at Arminius::
"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason."— Saint Thomas Aquinas
Example: 2008 United States elections.
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."Friedrich Nietzsche
Example: May I dare say the U.S. elections again.
We yell about high oil and gas and then we vote for the person who will not drill for oil and will put a cap and trade system on the nations greatest source of energy -coal.
I know, enough with politics.
Could it be that we have a financial crisis looming, and the American people voted for the guy who they thought is best suited to deal with it? Sounds rational to me.
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Personally, I'm not really in the mood to be insulted after living with the retard George W. Bush for the past 8 years without so much as saying ONE nasty thing about the people who voted him in.
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When the financial meltdown happened, I was impressed that he didn't panic, but instead consulted experts to get up to speed on the situation very quickly. He values knowledge, and he's a quick study.
Lastly, I like his tax plan, and his reasoning behind it.
What I hope he does is find qualified experts who will know how to deal with the economy, and use them and the power of government regulation to find the solution. And I think he can do just that.
"None of us is as dumb as all of us."-Demotivator
Applies to every bureaucratic organization out there.
"No Luke, I am your father."-Darth Vader
Applies to fathers with sons named "Luke."
"The only thing we have to fear is - fear itself."-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Example: fear (itself)
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."Laurence J. Peter
Example: The occupation given plus the science forecasters.
"Learning is achieved only in company."The Talmud
Example: Reading opposing views on Goodreads discussions.
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."Peter Ustinov
Example: The break up of the AT&T monopoly in 1982.
'Resistance is futile' - The Borg - I think this applies to George W Bush and his war on Terrorism - I'm watching Star Trek Voyager and its a Borg episode;
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"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."H. L. Mencken
Example: Minnesotans whom voted for Al Franken.
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Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
1) In Alabama, it is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle.
2) In Ohio, it is against state law to get a fish drunk.
3) In Miami, Florida, it is illegal to skateboard in a police station.
4) In Florida, unmarried women who parachute on Sundays can be jailed.
5) In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon more than six-feet long.
6) In Boulder, Colorado, it is illegal to kill a bird within the city limits and also to “own” a pet – the town’s citizens, legally speaking, are merely “pet minders”.
7) In Vermont, women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth.
Actually those seem like pretty good laws to me, except number 6. All right, and number 7 and 4.
I hope number 1 isn't randomly enforced. I'm for zero tolerance on that one.
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who would want to get a fish drunk? how did it become a law?
how does one go about carrying a concealed weapon over 6 feet long?
what if you wanted to raise chickens in Boulder? would you have to take the chickens out of town to kill them? how about plucking their feathers and cooking them? do they not have any chicken for sale in their local markets? idiots.
7 just makes me think some guys really like their blow jobs.
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher (other topics)The Merchant of Venice (other topics)
Frankenstein (other topics)
I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, & Doggone It, People Like Me! (other topics)
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Example: The non-belief of Global Warming.