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When you are in a hole, stop digging!


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Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.

Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.



The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.



Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say

Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say



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what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.



In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"

In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"



Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.



Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.



We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.



The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.



We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)





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He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.



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What I'm doing is going to do some good and we're going to change the world.



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I don't think people should try to force their will on their family.



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To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.



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Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit." "Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.



I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.

I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.




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