Joel Achenbach Quotes

• There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.

  Joel Achenbach

  Men, Missions, Mediocre

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• Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.

  Joel Achenbach

  Inevitable, Frontiers, Uncertainty

  "What makes some people so suspicious of the findings of science?" by Joel Achenbach, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2015.

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• Girls were nice to me in the same way that they would be nice to a hamster. I fantasized about wild encounters with females but knew they'd never happen unless my own involvement could somehow go undetected.

  Joel Achenbach

  Girl, Nice, Encounters

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• Nunca el buen tiempo sentó tan mal. Nunca las flores inspiraron tanto miedo. Nunca la cálida caricia de un rayo de sol ha parecido tan ominosa. El tiempo es sublime, es glorioso, es el fin del mundo.

  Joel Achenbach

  Flower, Weather, Sublime

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• Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.

  Joel Achenbach

  Morning, People, Genius

  Joel Achenbach (1991). “Why Things are: Answers to Every Essential Question in Life”

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• Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be negative tax rates. There can be subsidies. There can be allowances for depreciation. Lobbyists are adaptive creatures.

  Joel Achenbach

  Subsidies, Facts, Lobbyists

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• You might declare that global warming and energy insecurity, not to mention urban sprawl and pollution, have intensified the sin of indulging one's motoring desires. And I would not argue with that point. You're right. I am a bad man. But over the long term, if you want to develop a new transportation and energy policy, you'd probably want to err on the side of assuming that people won't change much. And it is human nature to like to be empowered.

  Joel Achenbach

  Hombres, Long, Gente

  "The Car of the Future". voices.washingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• Coffee is one of the special things I have, instead of a social life.

  Joel Achenbach

  Coffee, Special, Social

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• It depends on your specific conception of God, because belief can equally well leave you with this constant sense that you're coming up short and you're being judged and you're not doing quite the perfect thing. You know, I was brought up very religiously, and I never totally lost that sense, you know, that I'm screwing up.

  Joel Achenbach

  Perfect, Belief, Lost

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• El escándalo de Enron pone en tela de juicio la integridad de todo el sistema capitalista, que antes suponíamos basado en la codicia honesta y directa.

  Joel Achenbach

  Integrity, Enron Scandal, Greed

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• Se supone que las personas que piensan correctamente no pueden hablar de ningún acontecimiento meteorológico o geofísico -un huracán, un incendio forestal, una ola de calor, una sequía, una inundación, una ventisca, un tornado, un rayo, una brisa desconocida, un extraño cosquilleo en la nuca- sin invocar inmediatamente la crisis climática. Provoca terremotos, plagas y decepciones en la jardinería de traspatio. ¿Hongos extraños en tus tomateras? La clásica señal del calentamiento global.

  Joel Achenbach

  Disappointment, Thinking, Earthquakes

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• Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.

  Joel Achenbach

  Hermoso, Arte, Escritura

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