Gregg Easterbrook Quotes

• Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer is obvious; as refreshing as summer is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise.

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  Summer, Autumn, Paradise

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• Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

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  Fun, Science, Numbers

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• The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.

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  Climate, Global Warming, Reason

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• How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not?

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  Revenge, Thinking, Doe

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• La paz en la tierra y la misericordia leve aún son posibles. En Nochebuena, todo es posible.

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  Christmas, Earth, Mercy

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• Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

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  May, Grievance

  Gregg Easterbrook (2003). “The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse”, p.190, Random House

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• For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

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  Writing, Ukulele, Thinker

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• Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

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  Money, Needs, Certain

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• Cuente sus bendiciones por razones egoístas Estudios psicológicos demuestran que las personas que son conscientes de sus bendiciones y se sienten agradecidas por ellas viven más que las que no lo son, tienen menos problemas médicos como la hipertensión, ganan más y consiguen matrimonios más duraderos.

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  Gratitude, Selfish, Grateful

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• Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

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  Running, Helping Others, People

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• But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

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  Today Life, People, Live For Today

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• Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

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  Correr, Personas, Riesgo

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• I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.

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  Football, Couple, Fall

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• Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

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  Christian, Identity, Stereotype

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• And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

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  Football, Writing, Nfl

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• ... the consensus of the scientific community has shifted from skepticism to near-unanimous acceptance of the evidence of an artificial greenhouse effect. Second, while artificial climate change may have some beneficial effects, the odds are we're not going to like it. Third, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases may turn out to be much more practical and affordable than currently assumed.

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  Acceptance, Odds, Community

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• When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption

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  Hijos, Yo, Padres

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• Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

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  Memories, Powerful, People

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• Set aside the many competing explanations of the big bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization - that something transcendent started it all - which has hard-science types... using terms like "miracle."

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  Miracle, Bangs, Cosmos

  "The New Convergence". www.wired.com. December 1, 2002.

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• Aunque la ortodoxia ecologista sostiene que la deforestación del Tercer Mundo está causada por los rapaces taladores y los despiadados barones del ganado, los campesinos sin dinero que buscan leña pueden ser la mayor amenaza para nuestros bosques.

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  Environmental, Fuel, World

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• Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

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  Real, Focus, Environmental

  Gregg Easterbrook (1995). “A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism”, Viking Press

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• A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The spacecraft carries our secret hope that there is something better out there-a world where we may someday go and leave the sorrows of the past behind. The spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle.

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  Inspiración, Corazón, Pasado

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• The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert.

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  Data, Sides, Global Warming

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• I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

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  Thinking, Jewish Identity, Appreciate

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• No creo que se puedan encontrar muchas lecciones más importantes en los deportes.

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  Sports, Thinking, Lessons

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