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• ...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

  Aldous Huxley

  Two, Sorrow, Unnecessary

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• By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

  John le Carre

  Lying, Facts, Repetition

  John le Carre (2004). “Absolute Friends”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• Noah had 120 years to warn humanity of the flood. We have only 4-5 years until global warming is irreversible

  Yosef Abramowitz

  Years, Humanity, Global Warming

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• We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

  King Hussein I

  Truth, Mistake, Dark

  "Remarks during a conference of Arab chiefs of state". The New York Times, p. 6, August 31, 1967.

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• So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Water, Sodium, Social

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• The prescribers very often overstate, oversell, and the detail people are only too happy to tell them to do that. This idea that there's something wrong with your brain, and by the way, almost never are these antidepressant medications evaluated with what will happen if you're on them for three, four, five, 10, 15 years. Sometimes some of the side effects that come up come up only later, and sometimes they're very severe, even irreversible side effects.

  Steven C. Hayes

  People, Brain, Sometimes

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Europe, Doubt, Projects

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• Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. The worst vaccine of all is the whooping cough vaccine... it is responsible for a lot of deaths and for a lot of infants suffering irreversible brain damage. In susceptible infants, it knocks their immune systems about, leading to irreparable brain damage, or severe attacks or even deaths from diseases like pneumonia or gastro-enteritis and so on.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Vaccines, Pneumonia, Brain

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• Global warming is already acting upon us with an accelerated feedback and compounded effect that may be irreversible! We do not have eons or centuries or many decades. Most of us alive today may not even have the luxury of saying 'Après moi, le déluge' because we will be around to experience it ourselves. And if you think it will be 'interesting' or 'exciting,' ask the tsunami survivors if that's how they felt. This time the plutocratic drive to 'accumulate, accumulate, accumulate' may take all of us down, once and forever.

  Michael Parenti

  Thinking, Luxury, Interesting

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• Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

  Gary Larson

  Loss, Ecosystems, Water

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.

  Janet Malcolm

  Disappointment, Eye, Wrinkles

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• Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.

  Vinod Khosla

  Years, Climate, Needs

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• In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers to the well-being of humanity associated with climate change are ignored despite a strong scientific consensus warning of the adverse, and possibly irreversible, consequences of further delays in reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon.

  Richard A. Falk

  Strong, Humanity, Delay

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Blessing, Men

  Erich Fromm (1963). “War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness”

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• A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Book, Want, Return

  "Controversial author picks up IMPAC Literary Award", www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2002.

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• Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

  James Lee Burke

  Clever, Loss, Age

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• I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know from talking to people, for communities around the world, the election of an African American to the most powerful office on Earth meant things had changed, and not just in superficial ways. That in some irreversible way the world was different.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Regret, Believe

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Even Boris Johnson doesn't think there's going to be a United States of Europe. ​And I think there's a real question here that you're being asked to make a decision that's irreversible we cant change it, we wake up on Friday and we don't like it, and we're being sold it on a lie because they lied about the cost of Europe, they lied about Turkey's entrance to Europe, they lied about the European army because we've got a veto for that they put that in their leaflets and they've lied about this here tonight too and its not good enough you deserve the truth you deserve the truth.

  Ruth Davidson

  Friday, Real, Lying

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

  Fidel Castro

  World, Capitalism

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• Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need a decisive 'yes' to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Strong, Commitment, Choices

  "Pope Urges Young People to Care for Environment". www.foxnews.com. September 2, 2007.

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• While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It is necessary, however, that the entire human community - individuals, States and international bodies - take seriously the responsibility that is theirs.

  Pope John Paul II

  Responsibility, Community, Environmental

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• It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies -- both at home and around the world -- to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.

  Bernie Sanders

  Change, Real, Mean

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• The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.

  William J. Clinton

  Commitment, Civilization, Kyoto

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.

  Heather Dorff

  Gone, Credit, Matter

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• The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

  Silvan Shalom

  Fence, Human Life, Humans

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