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Margaret Beckett Politician
Climate

"Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Climate

"Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Climate

"[Donald] Trump has been very inconsistent on many things; on Twitter he's been all over the place, but some of it is very consistent. That is: Do nothing about climate change except make it worse. And he's not just speaking for himself, but for the whole Republican Party, the whole leadership. It's already had impact, it will have worse impact."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Climate

"As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which the Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate."

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Freeman Dyson Theoretical Physicist
Climate

"The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Climate

"Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
Climate

"God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company"

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Jonathan Swift Satirist, Writer
Climate

"Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Climate

"The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place to examine the social mores and the economic and political climates. In a way, the autobiography becomes history as well as the story of one person, for it becomes the story of a family or the story of the state or nation."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Climate

"We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education."

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