"You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets."
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"We need to put a price on carbon. This needs to be a priority for all of us in how we vote."
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"The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore. But the most important truth is that we are capable of stopping climate change before the worst of its consequences are locked in. The solutions exist - all we need is the will to do something about it."
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"I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response."
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"Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it."
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"Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions."
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"She's soft and she's gentle and sweet as can be, and if Sharmon needs squeezin', then leave it to me."
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"If I do need to make money suddenly, I prefer to just draw something I want to draw and have someone else sell it for me on the Internet."
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"I do not think that there is any time in our history when things were perfect. I do not expect such times in the near future either. But I think every generation has to examine what needs to be done, what belongs to its peace and proceed. And so what needs to be done will change with time depending on the conditions, whatever the conditions happen to be. And they will not be the same for generation after generation."
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"It will not be good enough simply to depend on one or two markets, we will need to embrace innovation, decide what we do well, and target those sectors in which, with investment and planning, we could make the whole world our client for keeps."
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"We Canadians need, as a country, to be much more present globally than we have been today."
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"We need to EARN the right to be leaders. It is to our peril when we are given things for which we are not qualified. For Believers, we must only engage in activities for which the Lord has called us."
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"I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them."
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"But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?"
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"You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing."
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"Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense."
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"Perhaps we wouldn't eat so much, or smoke, or drink so much if we were paying attention to ourselves. Perhaps we wouldn't talk so much if we were paying attention to each other. All these oral activities are trying to meet a need, and perhaps the greatest need is to be seen and heard."
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"I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement."
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"My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics."
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"To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs."
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