Trends Quotes - Page 9

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods-all are now more frequent and more intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science-and act before it's too late.

Barack Obama

Children, Believe, Science

Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but a conclusion drawn from a broad look at the trends of the last decade and a half, which, if we take the right steps, can continue on into the next century. What has happened around the world - nations states collapsing, markets outwitting planners, citizens rising up against government masters - can and is happening here at home.

Llewellyn Rockwell

Home, Rising Up, Government

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On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.

Ze Frank

Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

Ludwig von Mises

Ideas, Common Sense, Liberty

Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.83, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."

Dave Barry

Humorous, Purpose, Advertising

Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.

Anthony Weiner

Country, Travel, Jobs

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If you have a large bloc of Americans who believe you're trying to keep their ... fellow Hispanics down and deprive them of an opportunity, obviously that's going to have an effect...The Republican Party has failed to understand to a significant degree the importance of this issue to our Hispanic voters. I think the trend will continue of lack of support from Hispanic voters and also as you look at the demographics of states like mine, that means we will go from Republican to Democrat over time.

John McCain

Party, Believe, Mean

"Republicans Worry Whether Arizona Will Continue To Be Party Stronghold", www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2013.

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The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Art, Arrogance, Modesty

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On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations.

David Douglass

Energy, Environment, Climate Change

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He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Reading, Tape, Investing

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Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming.

Christopher Landsea

Weather, Doubt, Energy

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Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.

Ian Kershaw

Long, History, Special

Ian Kershaw (1998). “Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris”

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I'm noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is a reaction to the current attacks on the essentials of Christianity that are coming from militant atheists, radical professors, and Internet gadflies.

Lee Strobel

Christian, Country, Atheist

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Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

Edward Weston

Photography, Art, Opportunity

"The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California".

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Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion.

Ralph Lauren

Fashion, Believe, Style

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In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison for preaching from the pulpit that homosexual behavior is sinful. Given these trends, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must take a stand on doctrine and principle. This is more than a social issue - ultimately it may be a test of our most basic religious freedoms to teach what we know our Father in Heaven wants us to teach.

Dallin H. Oaks

Country, Religious, Jesus

Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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Some of the justifiable critiques has been by - been so successful in telling this story, you know, there's a danger of saying, oh, well, you know, we don't need to worry about this because that's absolutely not the case. What [Hans] Rosling is doing is showing us an overall global trend, which in a sense tells us how bad things were - doesn't mean to say the problems are gone, doesn't mean to say they're any less.

Keith Devlin

Mean, Successful, Worry

Source: www.npr.org

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People are starting to realize that the disability community has been disenfranchised and deserves to have its rights recognized, which I see as a positive trend. I don't think it'll be a quick process, but I see more attention being given to it.

Jay Ruderman

Thinking, Rights, People

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James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant social critic, he foreshadowed the destructive trends happening now in the whole Western world and beyond, while always maintaining a sense of humanistic hope and dignity. He explored palpable, yet unspoken, intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies and the inevitable, if unnameable, tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.

Raoul Peck

Class, Identity, World

Source: www.theskanner.com

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If we continue on the trend we’re on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of dollar-and-a-quarter a day poverty and back from the brink of hunger and malnutrition. But if we accelerate our progress from 3 percent annual reduction to over 6 percent and focus on key turnarounds in some difficult countries, we could get a 90 percent reduction. We could essentially eliminate dollar-and-a-quarter head count poverty.

Rajiv Shah

Country, Keys, People

Rajiv Shah's Remarks at The Aspen Institute, 2012-2017.usaid.gov. August 1, 2012.

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Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale systems of relevance in environmental and economic sciences

Ilya Prigogine

Environmental, Chemistry, Physics

Ilya Prigogine (2003). “Is Future Given?”, p.22, World Scientific

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This was an unpleasant trend. I didn’t want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.

Charlaine Harris

Guy, Want, Bedroom

Charlaine Harris (2008). “From Dead to Worse: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.130, Penguin

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Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have to create a new kind of art, a new kind of creativity. We have to bring to the world again what Gurdjieff calls objective art.

Rajneesh

Art, Stupid, Creativity

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Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I've always aimed to address the bigger picture and later trends. In many ways, what a photographer does is give others a chance to step back and look at their world and gain perspective on where we stand, and what that means.

Vincent Laforet

Photography, Mean, Unique

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On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment isn't O.K. just because it hasn't hit 1933 levels; ominous political trends shouldn’t be dismissed just because there’s no Hitler in sight.

Paul Krugman

Fall, Sight, Political

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