#npr

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #beings #change #climate #climate change

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#capable #complexity #construction #creature #drive

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record. ↗

— Zane Grey

#did #during #i #record #spell

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#attacks #borders #civilians #furthering #goal

Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#department #entity #formed #interests #internet

Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#fronts #most #our #ports #terror

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area. ↗

— Rogers Hornsby

#area #back #ball #because #box

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass. ↗

— David F. Houston

#feed #frequently #grass #however #lands

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#britain #god #good #great #great britain

The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#ahead #appears #attempted #average #better