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There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.


Brad Carson


#appeal #change #choosing #climate #climate change

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.


Erich Fromm


#capacity #creation #premise #puzzled #science

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.


Stephen Jay Gould


#after #challenged #changes #darwinian #explained

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.


Andrea Dworkin


#assertions #authentic #consequence #credible #defined

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.


Roberto Unger


#been #capital #established #even #features

We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now.


Markus Wolf


#bugs #care #former #i #interested

The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.


Emeril Lagasse


#about #been #doing #even #generations

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#dared #draw #machine #premises #press

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.


Barack Obama


#ago #based #because #declaration #economy

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.


Ron Perlman


#camera #constantly #degrees #depicting #else






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