WT Sharpe
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“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“And it wasn’t just one warning. Eight years before the Panel on Climate Change’s report, an assessment of global warming’s impacts in New York City had also cautioned of potential flooding. “Basically pretty much everything that we projected happened,” says Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the cochair of the Panel on Climate Change and coauthor of that 2001 report.”
― The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014
― The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
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“Does that mean that religious texts are worthless as guides to ethics? Of course not. They are magnificent sources of insight into human nature, and into the possibilities of ethical codes. Just as we should not be surprised to discover that ancient folk medicine has a great deal to teach modern hightech medicine, we should not be surprised if we find that these great religious texts hold versions of the very best ethical systems any human culture will ever devise. But, like folk medicine, we should test it all carefully, and take nothing whatever on faith.”
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life
“Even in the heyday of frozen concentrate, the popularity of orange juice rested largely on its image as the ultimate natural beverage, fresh squeezed from a primordial fruit. But the reality is that human intervention has modified the orange for millenniums, as it has almost everything people eat.”
― The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014
― The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014
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