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• The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

  Charles Stanley

  Inspirational Life, Dark, Long

  Charles Stanley (2013). “NASB, The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible, eBook”, p.590, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Seek that your last days may be your best days, and so you may die in a good old age, which may be best done when you die good in old age, and are such as St. Paul the aged who had finished his course.

  Ralph Venning

  Inspirational Life, Last Day, Be Your Best

  "The Sinfulness of Sin".

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• Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

  Nicholas Stern

  War, Two, Risk

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• I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.

  Phil Jones

  Real, Years, Energy

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• The amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon.

  Peter Lesley

  Years, Oil, Twenties

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• There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5bn.

  Tony Blair

  Years, Energy, Cost

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

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• The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.

  James Hansen

  Sea, World, Levels

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• The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

  Al Gore

  Years, Energy, Records

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• ...it is quite obvious that the temperature change during the last 100 years or so includes significant natural changes, both the linear change and fluctuations. It is very puzzling that the IPCC reports state that it is mostly due to the greenhouse effect.

  Syun-Ichi Akasofu

  Years, Energy, Temperature

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• ...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world.

  Al Gore

  Years, Iowa, Weather

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• Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas...This is what climate change looks like in its early stages.

  Bill McKibben

  Russia, Texas, Years

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• There has been a vigorous acceleration of health, resource and education programs designed to advance the role of the American Indian in our society. Last Fall, for example, 91 percent of the Indian children between the ages of 6 and 18 on reservations were enrolled in school. This is a rise of 12 percent since 1953.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, Fall, School

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1961). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961”, p.925, Best Books on

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• A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Wind, People

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• Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Wise, Lying

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Style, Mind, Finest

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Couple, Opportunity, Views

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.354, Macmillan

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• We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

  David Blunkett

  Years, Identity, Three

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• After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.

  Tony Blair

  Terrible Events, Profound, World

  "They said...", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

  David Korten

  Strong, Views, Years

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• Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heart, Animal, Men

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• A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Careers, Stage

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4487, Delphi Classics

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• Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

  Bernard Berenson

  Government, Long, Taxation

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• Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

  Howard Stringer

  Years, Alternatives, Profit

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• When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.

  Albert Einstein

  Business, Intellectual, Society

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• When there are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles,
  When the time comes to embrace for one long last while,
  We can laugh about how time really flies,
  We won't say goodbye 'cause true love never dies,You'll always be beautiful in my eyes.

  Joshua Kadison

  Beautiful, Goodbye, Farewell

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