"I’d always assumed that those people who live in those fancy houses in the suburbs were financially better off than I was, and only once I’d joined them did I come to understand that it’s all just a much more sophisticated and elaborate way of being broke."
- Jonathan Tropper, How to Talk to a Widower
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"Sitting in a darkened movie theater smack in the middle of a workday makes you feel like life is a class that you’re cutting."
- Jonathan Tropper, How to Talk to a Widower
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"As someone who thinks about religion very little — I reject the label atheist because defining me in terms of the things I don’t believe would require an infinite list of nouns — I see no necessary contradiction between religion and science. By which I mean that if I were a deist, I would claim no better example of the skill and ingenuity of The Creator than in the laws of nature that allowed for the magnificent story of the origin and evolution of life on Earth, and their overwhelmingly beautiful expression in our tree of life. I am not a deist, philosopher or theologian, so I will make no further comment on the origin of the laws of nature that permitted life to evolve. I simply don’t know; perhaps someday we will find out. But be in no doubt that laws they are, and Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is as precise and well tested as Einstein’s theories of relativity."
- Brian Cox
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"Don’t you ever get a tattoo, understand? All it says is that you ain’t open to change."
- Nami Mun, Miles From Nowhere
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"I had left her when she needed me most, and in the end, she died, in a car, completely alone with nothing but the sound of metal crushing her. I couldn’t grieve for her, not because I didn’t want to, but because I didn’t deserve to. I looked at Mr. McCommon, his hands smothering his face, his chest flinching. He had no idea that grief was a reward. That it only came to those who were loyal, to those who loved more than they were capable of."
- Nami Mun, Miles From Nowhere
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"In the absence of climate change, extreme heat waves in Europe, Russia, and the United States, for example, would be expected to occur only once every several hundred years. Observations indicate a tenfold increase in the surface area of the planet experiencing extreme heat since the 1950s."
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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"No nation will be immune to the impacts of climate change.
However, the distribution of impacts is likely to be inherently
unequal and tilted against many of the world’s poorest regions,
which have the least economic, institutional, scientific, and technical capacity to cope and adapt."
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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"Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed."
- Garrett Hardin
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"It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see."
- Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I Leave You
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"You never know when it will be the last time you’ll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there’s always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you’d never stop grieving."
- Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I Leave You
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