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Vaclav Smil Quotes

People shouldn't be living in certain places - on earthquake faults or on flood plains. But they do, and there are consequences.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: czechoslovakian
Birth: December 9, 1943

Topics

People Consequences Living Places

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

Jennifer Aniston

Uncomfortable Disaster Involved Date

It's difficult sometimes to become friends with actors.

Andie MacDowell

Friends Sometimes Become Difficult

I try to stay off Twitter.

Try Stay Off Twitter

I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!

Myself Secrets Beyond Keep Grave

White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress.

Live Time Stress People Expectations

I always accepted the libertarian position of minimum regulation in the sale and use of firearms because I placed guns under the beneficial rubric of minimal restrictions on individuals.

Michael Shermer

Always Guns Position Because Use

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

People Help Early More Mean Always

The DVR thing has rocked my world. Being on the road, I used to not keep up with any shows. Now I got a DVR, so I'm watching everything: 'CSI: Miami,' my favorites 'Criminal Minds' and 'The Mentalist.' I like some of the HBO stuff, 'Entourage' and 'Eastbound & Down.' My wife got me into the 'Grey's Anatomy' deal, so I'm watching that.

Wife Me World Road Miami Down

I feel I'm my own quarterback and have accomplished my own things.

Feel My Own Own Things Quarterback

The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry, and then could not object when the British did the same.

Fraud Same Policy British Whole Did

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

New Dying Off Simply Performers

Around the world, it is much more difficult for women than for men to run a successful business. Even when laws are not explicitly biased against them, companies owned and operated by women often face discrimination every step of the way, from obtaining finance to finding customers.

Arancha Gonzalez

Women Business Men Finance Step Run

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