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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil. ↗

— Nate Silver

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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much. ↗

— Nate Silver

#baseball #game #just #much #poll

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. ↗

— Nate Silver

#i #i think #kind #market #polling

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake. ↗

— Nate Silver

#hampshire #instance #miss #mistake #new

The driver got out smiling. He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was Luke, my old enemy. This guy had the same sandy hair and outdoorsy good looks. But it wasn't Luke. His smile was brighter and more playful. (Luke didn't do much more than scowl and sneer these days.) The Maserati driver wore jeans and loafers and a sleeveless T-shirt. "Wow" Thalia muttered. Apollo Is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#funny #hot #humor #percy-jackson #funny

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips. ↗

— Peter Singer

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If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#bodies #chemicals #ever #had #industrial

Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#before #bodies #born #clean #clean up

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us. ↗

— David Suzuki

#bottom line #conserving #consumption #economy #effects

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures. ↗

— David Suzuki

#associated #benefits #care #care costs #change